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Allison Janney-Led Sitcom Mom Officially Ending With Season 8
CBS has announced that they’ve officially decided not to give their long-running sitcom Mom a ninth season renewal. This comes five months after lead star Anna Faris’ surprising exit as Christy Plunkett just before the current eighth season had premiered. The Allison Janey-led series is currently scheduled to conclude its eighth season-run on May 6, 2021.
“For the past eight years, we’ve had the great honor to bring these wonderful characters to life, sharing their struggles and triumphs with millions of viewers every week,” executive producers Chuck Lorre, Gemma Baker and Nick Bakay said in a statement (via The Wrap).
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Having already lost fully half its
Moms in a tragic de-Faris-ing incident at the end of its 7th season, CBS sitcom mainstay
Mom will now be ending its run at the end of its upcoming 8th.
Variety reports the news, quoting creator Chuck Lorre, who praised star Allison Janney, and everyone else involved in the show’s production.
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Mom gained early critical attention for its modern spin on the old tradition of the socially conscious blue-collar sitcom, taking hard looks at the struggles of a mother-daughter pairing (Janney and Anna Faris) attempting to reconcile while both recovering from years of alcohol and drug addiction. Although often comedic, the show didn’t shy away from harrowing truths about poverty, addiction, relapse, and more, and both Janney and Faris (whose absence in this year’s season was explained as her character getting a scholarship to study law at Georgetown) have been praised for their portrayals of Bo
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