After 20 years and 17 seasons, it’s robust to think about a world the place “It’s At all times Sunny in Philadelphia” isn’t on tv, however there was a degree the place one member of its dependable ensemble — which consists of Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney (aka Rob Mac), Kaitlin Olson, and Danny DeVito — virtually bowed out. On the July 1 PaleyLive twentieth anniversary panel (through Folks), Howerton revealed that previous to the beginning of Season 12, which broadcast on FXX in 2017, he informed the inventive staff, “Look, I simply don’t need to put on out our welcome.”
“I used to be apprehensive that possibly we had form of peaked or one thing, and I simply was like, , we’ve been doing this for a very long time. And I feel I used to be additionally anxious,” Howerton stated. “I had not found out but how one can stretch myself and be capable of do different issues that I needed to do with my profession exterior of the present… I simply hadn’t found out how to try this but. I used to be aching to do different issues, and so I used to be beginning to really feel just a little boxed in, frankly.”
The forged was insistent, saying that they didn’t need the present to finish. He merely stated, “Oh, nicely I can’t cease you.” “After which Seasons 13 and 14, I got here again as an actor however I wasn’t within the writers’ room.”
Howerton had made appearances in lots of different sequence, together with “The Mindy Venture” and “Fargo,” however after he “found out how to try this” — which means juggle extra initiatives — he would tackle such hefty assignments because the sitcom “A.P. Bio” and movies like “The Hunt” and “Blackberry.” In the meantime, “It’s At all times Sunny” stored going, and so did he.
“[They] simply stored writing it and stored writing him in,” McElhenney stated, the present’s official creator. “And we’re like, he’s simply gonna ultimately say he’s coming again. That’s what occurred.”
“It’s At all times Sunny” will drop its first two episodes of its seventeenth season, which can comprise eight episodes, on July 9. Its season premiere will embrace the highly-anticipated second a part of a crossover occasion with fellow Philadelphia-set sitcom “Abbott Elementary.” An episode of that sequence with visitor appearances from all the “Sunny” forged aired on ABC in January.
Watch the Season 17 trailer beneath: