‘A Million Little Things’ Showrunner & EP Talk Crafting Final Season As ‘A Bookend’ To The Series; New Promo Bids Farewell
deadline.comA Million Little Things is bidding farewell to its audience with a parallel to the first season, as the group begins to rally around a friend who is fighting for his life after a cancer diagnosis.
During ABC‘s Television Critics Association panel on Wednesday, showrunner Terrence Coli and executive producer DJ Nash discussed how they were planning to bring the series to a close. “It feels like a bookend,” said Coli, in reference to how the show began with character Jon Dixon (played by Ron Livingston) dying by suicide. “The friend group is going to rally around Gary [who was diagnosed in season 4].
They have been there for reach other and have shown up, through all the trials and tribulations.” Nash, who created the series and previously served as showrunner before handing it off to Coli, added that he’d had the idea for the series ending before the series ever began. “When I shoot a pilot, I like to know where it’s ending.
We knew right from the beginning this is where we are going. It’s a secret that was held between the EPs and the writers for a long time,” he said.
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