FX Entertainment Chief On ‘Atlanta’ Ending, Potential Spinoffs For Donald Glover’s Comedy & Pamela Adlon’s ‘Better Things’

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Both of FX’s awards stalwarts on the comedy side, Atlanta and Better Things, are coming to an end. Better Things co-creator, writer, director, executive producer and star Pamela Adlon announced that the upcoming fifth season will be her show’s last back in October; FX Chairman John Landgraf revealed at TCA today that Atlanta will end with its two upcoming seasons, 3 and 4.During Atlanta’s TCA panel, the series’ creator, writer, director, executive producer and star Donald Glover was blunt. “To be honest I wanted to end it at Season 2,” Glover quipped, adding “Death is natural.”That was news to FX executives who had accommodated Glover’s burgeoning music and feature career with a lengthy Atlanta hiatus after Season 2.“He never communicated to us that he wanted to end the show then but, after the second season, he obviously was very busy in other medium, in his music career, so there was an extended time but that was the first time I’d heard that he wasn’t sure he could continue the show which would make sense because there was a delay in what he wanted to do,” FX Entertainment President Eric Schrier told Deadline in an interview tied to FX’s TCA presentation. “Luckily, him and [EPs] Stephen [Glover] and Stefani [Robinson] and Hiro [Murai] came up with what I think people are really going to love for the next two seasons.”Season 3 and 4, the first of which comes four years after Season 2 aired on FX, were ordered by the network with the clear idea that they would be Atlanta‘s final chapter.“He came to us and said, I think there is a way to do two more seasons, and that’s how I want to end the show,” Schrier said. “Obviously we’d love Atlanta to continue to go on as long as it could but I think as Donald articulated, he had