‘This Is Us’ to End With Season 6 (Exclusive) - Hollywood Reporter

NBC's award-winning family drama from creator Dan Fogelman had long planned to close out its run during the 2021-22 broadcast season. .

Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that the network is poised to announce on Friday that its time-jumping family tear-jerker from creator Dan Fogelman will close its run during the upcoming 2021-22 broadcast season.

NBC is set to reveal its fall schedule for the 2021-22 season on Friday as new execs Frances Berwick and Susan Rovner present their vision for the future of the network to the press corps for the first time.

Still, Fogelman has been adamant about the endgame for This Is Us, saying at the end of season three that his show was at its “midpoint.” Fogelman, who serves as showrunner alongside Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, has for years said that the structure of the series would not sustain a run comparable to NBC’s veteran procedurals.

“We never set out to make a television series that was going to last 18 seasons, so we have a very direct plan.

While an official count has yet to be determined, it’s expected that the final season will consist of around 18 episodes, likely enough to carry the series over the 100-episode threshold typically needed to secure a lucrative off-network syndication deal and triggering a cash infusion for Fogelman and Disney, which now owns the series after closing its $71.3 billion Fox deal a few years ago. That would create yet another revenue stream after Disney-owned Hulu in 2017 acquired SVOD rights to This Is Us in what sources at the time said was a record-breaking per-episode fee.

This Is Us is NBC’s second scripted show that will end during the 2021-22 broadcast season, joining former Fox comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine, which will wrap with an abbreviated and delayed eighth season.