Jake Johnson Is Keen For New Girl Reunion And Has Already Spoken To Showrunner

New Girl left our screens in 2018, but now it seems as though a reunion may be on the cards, at least according to actor Jake Johnson.

Johnson, who played Nick Miller in the show, recently hinted that he's been speaking to the show's creator about the possibility of reunion.

Speaking on the Thirst Aid Kit podcast, Johnson said: "When we were going away, Fox was being pretty cool and saying like, 'We don't want to cancel you, but nobody's watching.'

He went on to explain how they managed to get a seventh and final season: "So, when we did our final season... Zooey Deschanel and I literally wrote an email to the heads [of the network] asking for more, for the few OG fans who stayed with us.

"You can't end the way season six ended where it was rushed. I was like, 'Give Liz Meriwether [New Girl writer] the time to finish this right.'

"So now that there's people following [the show], I'm like, 'it's not like you're 10 years too late, you're 18 months'. It's a little bittersweet. We were just working!"

He then revealed he'd been speaking to New Girl showrunner Hannah Simone.

"Hannah Simone and I were texting two nights ago," he told the podcast.

"Zooey and I still text. All the guys and I are on a text chain. Everybody's still linked up, so I would be surprised if there's not some sort of a thing at some point where everybody comes back."

New Girl debuted on Fox back in 2011 and centred on Jess Day (Deschanel), a teacher who discovered her boyfriend was cheating on her so ended up moving out of her home and into an apartment with three complete strangers - Schmidt (played by Max Greenfield), Nick, and Winston (played by Lamorne Morris).

It ran for seven seasons before coming to a close in 2018.

Speaking to Variety in 2018, Deschanel said: "It felt like we were ready for it to be the end, in a bittersweet way. But it wasn't difficult. It was like finishing a marathon, like we did this really long run for seven years and we've played these characters a long time.

"It's not like there was any unfinished business. It felt like the right time to be ending it in the best way. I'm sad not to see my friends that I've worked with every day for so long, but it was all really positive in the end."

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Claire Reid

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