“Everybody uses cool terms like canceled or creatively moving on,” he added. “That was a job that we had that we all liked having, and then we got the call that they fired us.” But he took matters into his own hands. “We got fired at the end of season 6,” Johnson explained.

Will there be a season 8 of New Girl?

Is New Girl season 8 in production? The final episode of the show dropped on May 15, 2018. So the sitcom is officially over and will not continue after the seventh season. Although the fans are eagerly asking for it, there are many reasons why the show ended.

Is New Girl coming back in 2020?

A New Girl Reunion Hasnt Been Ruled Out In an August 2020 interview on Slates Thirst Aid Kit podcast, Jake Johnson said he was still in regular contact with his former co-stars and he “would be surprised if theres not some sort of thing at some point where everybody comes back.”

Did Zooey Deschanel get fired from New Girl?

The reason Jess was missing from the first six episodes of season five was because actress Zooey Deschanel was on maternity leave. Show creator Elizabeth Meriwether revealed to HitFix that the plot of season five could have been entirely different.