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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Anna Faris made a very shocking and dramatic exit from the hit CBS comedy Mom last September, with only days before production was set to begin on Season 8.
Mom are well versed with the Plunkett family, led by lovable recovering alcoholic (played by Allison Janney).
Yes,
that Plunkett. Your Jim Plunkett (
pictured above in December 2019). Then, there’s a (John) Madden, a (Sebastian) Janikowski, (Ken) Stabler), Fred (Biletnikoff), (Marv) Hubbard, (Dave) Casper, (Warren) Wells and (Pete) Banaszak. Coincidence? No, not at all.
I was determined to find out why there was such a constant Raiders references on
Mom, so I called CBS and tracked down the show’s executive producer, Nick Bakay.
“This is absolutely a living tribute to the great Raiders of old,” Bakay told Silver and Black Pride in a phone interview last week. “If you’re going to love the characters you’re writing about, you’re going to have to name them after things you love.”