PinterestSurprise: Fox isn’t quite ready to break up with New Girl after all.
The network has renewed its longest-running live-action current comedy series for a seventh-but-final season. Fox isn’t yet revealing how many episodes will be ordered, but sources say the season will be far shorter than the usual 22 episodes.
On Twitter, costar Jake Johnson wrote that the final New Girl run would be eight episodes.#NewGirl has been picked up for 8 final episodes! Very excited to be able to finish what we started. Also Happy Mother’s Day, ladies.
— jake johnson (@MrJakeJohnson)
Fans thought they might have already seen the series finale as April’s sixth season closer was written to serve as a possible conclusion given all the uncertainty surrounding the comedy’s fate.
New Girl has been on the renewal bubble in recent years, with its longevity due to Fox’s struggle to find successful new comedies as much as its own performance. The most recent season averaged 2.9 million viewers and a 1.5 rating among adults 18-49.
But next season is definitively…
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