In fact, he'd planned to stay on the show, but the network never made him an offer. We may never know exactly what went down behind the scenes, Michael's exit on the show is more easily explained. After finally finding his soulmate in HR representative Holly Flax, Michael decided to quit his job and move with Holly to her home state of Colorado.
In Steve's final episode as a series regular, he spent his last day in the office saying goodbye to the employees who became his family. Although the NBC workplace comedy stayed on the air for two more seasons, The Office was simply never the same without Michael. We were truly grief-stricken over Steve's exit from The Office , but in the end, we consoled ourselves with Michael's own wise words: "There is such a thing as good grief. Just ask Charlie Brown.
Plus, we may not have seen the last of Michael Scott. The Office showrunner Greg Daniels recently told E! News that a revival for the show is "more likely" now that the series is on the new streaming service Peacock. Side note: Does Peacock have the best shows or what?! By no means a sure thing early on.
As the seven-season deadline approached in , everybody but Carell renegotiated for a further two seasons. Ad — content continues below. One thing wrong was that during the — season six to seven period, Comcast bought a controlling share in NBCUniversal, and replaced network chairman Jeff Glaspin with Bob Greenblatt. Then in April , when season six of The Office was in its final months of airing and the network should have been laying out the red carpet to get Carell to re-sign, it blanked him.
I think that will probably be my last year. But no overtures came. But when NBC executives didn't make a valiant effort to get Steve to stay after his comments surfaced and made headlines, he was pushed to exit. Ultimately, Kim noted that the network didn't pick up Steve for another season.
He had told the network that he was going to sign for another couple of years. He was willing to and his agent was willing to. So all of that was willing and ready and, on their side, honest. I was there. The book notes that Steve's contract negotiations happened to be taking place as NBC was in the middle of a network executive transition, as Jeff Zucker was on his way out and Bob Greenblatt was coming in as his replacement.
As we all know now, The Office suffered after Steve exited the series and officially wrapped in Steve, by contrast, continued to see his career soar, landing roles and voiceover parts in TV shows and movies like Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues , The Morning Show , and the Despicable Me franchise.
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