EXCLUSIVE: The Goldbergs’ journey through the 1980s is over. The family comedy’s current tenth season will be its last, with the May season finale serving as a series finale, I have learned.
ABC declined comment. This does not come as a surprise. For shows of that age, renewals are not straightforward, and there had been questions over the past couple of years on how long The Goldbergs can go.
The half-hour, from creator Adam F. Goldberg and Sony Pictures TV, is the longest-running live-action network comedy series currently on the air and, given the way the broadcast business is going, there likely won’t be many others coming behind it that would be able join the exclusive club of live-action broadcast comedies with double-digit season, 200+ episode runs.
A year ago, ABC signed new deals with The Goldbergs star/EP Wendi McLendon-Covey, as well as fellow original cast members Sean Giambrone, Troy Gentile and Hayley Orrantia.
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