The Office NBC Is To Blame For Steve Carell Leaving After Season 7

The Office: NBC Is To Blame For Steve Carell Leaving After Season 7

While it was previously believed Steve Carell left The Office to pursue other projects, it turns out NBC is to blame for his departure.

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The Office NBC Is To Blame For Steve Carell Leaving After Season 7

NBC is to blame for Steve Carell leaving The Office after season 7. The Office was originally a British comedy created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant but was adapted by NBC in 2005 for American audiences. The show is often considered one of the most popular American sitcoms, with some people even claiming that it’s better than the original show. The Office was on the air for nine seasons, seven of which starred Carell as Regional Manager of Dunder Mifflin Scranton: Michael Scott.

Even though The Office was on for nine seasons, many fans claim there was a big drop in quality after Carell left the show in season 7. Michael was written out of the series, deciding to move to Colorado with the love of his life: Holly Flax. Carell’s was absent from the last four episodes of season 7, before returning for a cameo in the series finale when Michael came to Dwight and Angela’s wedding. It’s been widely believed that Carell left The Office to pursue other projects, but it turns out that wasn’t really the case.

According to author Andy Greene’s new book The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s (via Collider), NBC actually forced Carell out of The Office. Apparently, after Carell mentioned in a BBC interview that season 7 might be his last, NBC had no reaction to him saying he was considering leaving the series. Boom operator and sound mixer Brian Wittle explained that this irked Carell, which made it somewhat easier to leave after NBC decided not to renew his contract. Kim Ferry, a hairstylist for The Office, summed up what happened between NBC and Carell, which can be read in the quote below:

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“He didn’t want to leave the show. He had told the network that he was going to sign for another couple of years. He was willing to and his agent was willing to. But for some reason, they didn’t contact him. I don’t know if it was a game of chicken or what… He planned on staying on the show.” . . . “It just is mind-boggling how that happened. And I feel bad because I think a lot of people think he did leave the show on his own merit and it’s absolutely not true. I’m telling you. I was there. I was there. He really wanted to stay. And it devastated all of us because he was the heart of our show.”

With the popularity of The Office, there has been word of the series coming back for a revival after being off the air for seven years. The cast of the show, including Ellie Kemper, Ed Helms, Jenna Fischer, and Nancy Carell (Steve’s wife who played the character Carol), are all down to return for a revival. They even begged him to do so on Carell’s opening monologue on SNL in 2018. John Krasinski (Jim), would also love to return, but Carell isn’t sold on returning. Carell has said multiple times that he won’t do a revival of The Office because he believes they wouldn’t be able to reproduce the success that they initially had.

Whether or not Carell will ever come around on a reboot of The Office, it will no doubt be shocking for fans that NBC basically booted him off the show by not renewing his contract. Carell has had a successful career post-Office and even got nominated for an Academy Award for his role in the 2014 film Foxcatcher. That being said, no matter what Carell does, given the popularity of The Office, he will always be partly known for playing Michael Scott. Fans have always wondered what season 8 and 9 could have been like if Carell stuck around, but that question is even more prevalent now that fans know that he could have appeared in the final two seasons of The Office.

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