Actor, director and soon-to-be-former Some Good News anchor John Krasinski may have heard all of those criticisms from those who labeled him a “sellout” for taking his YouTube show and selling it to ViacomCBS.
In a chat with his former The Office co-star Rainn Wilson, he didn’t specifically talk about the accusations, but he did explain why he sold it in the first place.
“I was only planning on doing eight of them during quarantine,” he said, “because I have these other things that I’m going to be having to do very soon, like Jack Ryan and all this other stuff. But more than that, it was something that — writing, directing, and producing, all those things, with a couple of my friends was so much.”
“I knew it wouldn’t be sustainable with my prior commitments,” Krasinski added. “So I knew the two options always were going to be that I leave it off at eight in my office, which I would love to keep doing the show from my office forever. It just wasn’t sustainable.”
His comments came around the 16:40 mark:
This makes the most sense. If he was just a guy who found fame through Some Good News, perhaps selling it would feel weird. But he’s got a lot of other irons in the fire, and continuing to produce/write/direct/star in the series was just too much.
