Taylor Kinney’s go away of absence from Chicago Hearth will proceed into subsequent season.
Information broke this week that Kinney wouldn’t be returning as Kelly Severide on Chicago Hearth Season 11.
It was reported in January that the actor took time away from the present to cope with a private matter.
Nonetheless, the actor was on-screen as Severide till late February.
When you watch Chicago Hearth on-line, you already know the collection addressed Severide’s exit in early March.
The NBC procedural revealed that Severide was in Alabama for an arson investigation coaching program.
The collection introduced again Jesse Spencer final month for an episode, and the collection will do the identical for the upcoming season finale.
Spencer formally departed as a collection common in October 2021.
“I spotted I have been doing TV for a very long time. I added it up, and I believe this yr is my 18th yr of community tv,” Spencer instructed reporters throughout a Zoom press convention.
“I known as [showrunner] Derek [Haas] and broke him the information, stated I believed it was time to go away the present, and he agreed that we must always at the very least get Casey to 200 episodes.”
“It was a troublesome choice as a result of I’ve beloved the present from the beginning, however there are different issues that I want to do sooner or later, and there is some household that I must maintain, and 18 years is a very long time.”
NBC formally picked up Chicago Hearth for Season 12 earlier this yr, however contemporary episodes may not be out there for some time.
Like many different scripted collection, Chicago Hearth is not going to have any episodes banked for subsequent season amid the Writers Strike, that means that no scripts could be written till the strike is over.
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