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The Office " stars Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey opened up about the end of the beloved show. - The duo gave more details about the extension offer they got from NBC,
Entertainment Weekly reports.
"The Office" stars Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey said in their new book the show could have continued for two additional seasons, but ultimately stopped at season nine because it would have been "sad and wrong" to go on.
According to Entertainment Weekly's Jessica Wang, the duo reveals more details about the potential extension of the show in their upcoming book, "The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office From Two Best Friends Who Were There." Fischer and Kinsey said that producer Greg Daniels told the cast NBC offered to give them two more seasons, but there were concerns about how the show would evolve.
Many of the sitcom's longtime writers had already left the show, including Mindy Kaling and B.J. Novak, who exited as writers after season eight, according to their IMDb pages. A lot of the cast's contracts were up as well, EW reports, so Daniels asked the cast how they felt about ending the show after the ninth season.
Speaking with Wang, Kinsey said the decision was thoughtful and everyone considered how the show would function without its core cast, emphasizing their strong bond.
"I mean, the idea of slowly kind of losing people," Fischer said, "it just felt like, I don't know. It just felt sad and wrong."
Kinsey added: "It felt wrong. It felt wrong and like it would just ruin the [Office] world to slowly make up excuses of why people are leaving. One of the things I loved and we all got excited about was being able to know what the end was."
Kinsey also said Daniels invited the cast to pitch storylines for their characters in the final season, asking them what they hoped for the people they had portrayed for nearly a decade.
Kinsey also said Daniels asked the cast to pitch storylines that portrayed what they hoped for their characters in the final season.
This isn't the first deep dive into the history of "The Office" by Fischer and Kinsey. The pair launched their podcast "Office Ladies" in October 2019, giving a behind-the-scenes look at the beloved sitcom.
EW reports that a similar story about the show's extension was shared in writer Andy Greene's book "The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s," but Fischer and Kinsey shared more details of the "sobering moment" in their book.
"The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office From Two Best Friends Who Were There" comes out on May 17.