Understanding what may have been, it makes us want much more than we already did that there had been a Season 7 of The Resident. TV Insider lately spoke with co-creator Amy Holden Jones and govt producer Andrew Chapman about what would have occurred subsequent if the present had continued, and it included weddings, potential main returns, and a lot extra.
However as a substitute, the medical drama solely ran six seasons on Fox. It premiered in 2018, then what ended up being the collection finale aired in January 2023. Information of the cancellation got here three months after the Season 6 finale, which was crafted by Jones and Chapman to additionally function a collection ender, aired.
“The politics of it have been very sophisticated as a result of we have been owned by a studio that was run by ABC however we have been on the air on Fox, in order that cut up made for very tough contract negotiations yearly,” Chapman tells TV Insider. He added that may’ve made a by-product robust as properly.
“The one cause we weren’t picked up is as a result of Fox didn’t earn a living on the present as a result of they didn’t personal it,” provides Jones. “They’re type of like AMC theaters which can be exhibiting the film. Community tv made all its cash on promoting, and that cash goes away. And so the cash they’ve coming in, I imply, I feel we have been their second highest graded drama after 9-1-1. It’s not like we weren’t succeeding, however they weren’t creating wealth.”
She notes how “irritating” that was. “I particularly went and bought the present via twentieth, which was then the studio of Fox on the time we bought it, simply to keep away from this downside,” she explains. “And after one season, Disney purchased twentieth after which we had all the difficulty with that.”
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