Broad City will end after its fifth season, expected to air in early 2019, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The shows creators and stars, Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson, have also signed a first-look deal with Comedy Centrals parent company, Viacom, and are already working onfuture projects for the companies.
Broad City has been our baby and first love for almost 10 years, since we started as a web series, said Jacobson and Glazer. Its been a phenomenal experience, and weve put ourselves into it completely. Broad Citys always had a spontaneous pace and feeling, and ending after season five honors that spirit. We are very excited to bring new voices and points of view to Comedy Central and continue our collaboration together in new ways.
Glazer and Jacobson first developed Broad City while studying improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade. The web series launched in 2010, grabbing the attention of Amy Poehler, who served as a mentor to Glazer and Jacobson and later a producer when Broad City premiered on Comedy Central in 2014.
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In an interview with THR, Comedy Central President Kent Alterman said it was Jacobson and Glazers decision to end the series and resolve the characters stories after Season Five.
Wed never want them to overstay their welcome, he said. It was really driven by creative storytelling and when is a natural life [of the show]? Were thrilled with five seasons of a show like this. The last thing wed want is them to pretend theyre younger than they are and contrive and force it. The thing that matters to us more than anything is the creative integrity of the storytelling.
As for Glazer and Jacobsons new deal with Viacom, the pair are attached to three burgeoning TV shows, though not as writers or actors. Alterman said the network would certainly welcome a new project from Glazer and Jacobson, but added they werent rushing anything.
Theyre unwinding a 10-year intense deep dive into this show and these characters [counting the web series], Alterman said. The first stuff coming at us is stuff that theyre bringing people theyve collaborated with and new ideas. Were taking it as it comes. We havent even discussed that. But if they had something they wanted to do on-camera, we wouldnt refuse it. But it has to come organically.
Glazer and Jacobson are involved in various other projects as well. Jacobson is starring alongside Dave Franco in Marja-Lewis Ryans new addiction drama, 6 Balloons, while she was also recently tapped to co-write a television adaptation of A League of Their Own for Amazon. Glazer meanwhile starred in the 2017 comedy, Rough Night.