The 10th Season Of The Sitcom “Goldbergs” Will Feature A Dead Character Played By Jeff Garlin

When the 10th season of “The Goldbergs” on ABC debuts next month, Jeff Garlin’s character will have passed away.

The show’s creators, Chris Bishop and Alex Barnow, recently discussed how they eliminated Murray Goldberg from the Goldberg family in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. Nearly a year has passed since the premiere of the most recent season of “The Goldbergs,” which was canceled after a human resources investigation into Garlin’s conduct on set.

“[Garlin is] not going to be on the season, obviously,” Barnow told Entertainment Weekly in a Q&A published Tuesday.

“[Murray] will have passed, and we are sort of starting from a place of multiple months removed from his death. The family has already grieved. … This is going to be a family that has not reconciled the fact that their father’s gone but has sort of moved on and has dealt with a lot of that. … It’s an opportunity for this interesting emotional basis for the way people are behaving. But Jeff won’t be in the series this year, and so far the stories have been largely about looking forward rather than looking back.”

Garlin has been told by Barnow that “he’s not being replaced,” the actor continued.

According to Vanity Fair, Garlin allegedly engaged in a pattern of verbal and physical behavior that left some of his coworkers uncomfortable while working on “The Goldbergs” in December 2021.

He was accused of using language that some thought was inappropriate and demeaning to women, as well as acting in a way that was disrespectful or unprofessional. According to reports, Garlin also hugged or touched set personnel without asking if they were okay with it.

Garlin acknowledged that he can be a “loose cannon” at work but called his on-set behavior “silliness” in the Vanity Fair interview. He attributed the HR investigation to “a difference of opinion” between him and Sony Pictures Television, the production company.

The 60-year-old “Curb Your Enthusiasm” actor made it clear to Vanity Fair that he and Sony had mutually decided that he would leave the “Goldbergs.” To put it another way, he was not let go from the program.

Wendi McLendon-Covey, Sean Giambrone, Hayley Orrantia, Sam Lerner, and Troy Gentile star in the tenth season premiere of “The Goldbergs” on ABC on September 21.