John Krasinski Details Why He Sold Some Good News To ViacomCBS

Back in March, John Krasinski (The Office, Jack Ryan, A Quiet Place) started a YouTube series called Some Good News, which sees the actor read news stories sent to him that would put a smile on your face. However, he ended up selling the show to GameSpot parent company ViacomCBS, and he will not be hosting it. But he has good reason.

Krasinski went on the Soulpancake show Hey There, Human to explain to the site's co-founder Rainn Wilson--who also starred with Krasinski on The Office--as to why he made the decision to sell Some Good News. "It was one of those things where I was only planning on doing eight of them during quarantine 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," Krasinski explained to Wilson in a video chat on Instagram. "But more than that, it was something that writing, directing, and producing and all those things with a couple of my friends was so much I knew it wouldn't be sustainable with my prior commitments."

Because Krasinski has plenty of prior engagements, like Jack Ryan, A Quiet Place Part II, and probably other things coming down the road, he had to make a tough decision. "I knew the two options were always gonna be that I leave it off with eight in my office, which I would love to keep doing this show from my office forever. It just wasn't sustainable, so I'd need a partner coming on. In the first episode, I was thinking, 'Why isn't there a news show dedicated entirely to good news?' and now we have one of the biggest news programs in America, CBS News, saying that they want to make it part of their permanent news cycle, which is insane.

"The fact that we were able to accomplish that--in eight weeks, it went from not existing to now being on one of these huge news networks--is honestly one of the most amazing honors I've ever been able to pull off. And again, it was all due to the community and to the people."

While he will be busy with other work after Some Good News moves to CBS, Krasinski will be a part of the show in some way. He continued saying he may host an episode here or there, and "I'm going to be a part of it whenever I can."

Kranski will be directing in A Quiet Place Part II, which stars real-life wife Emily Blunt. The movie was originally coming to theaters on March 20, but because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the release date has been moved to September 4, 2020. He's also working on the Amazon Prime Video original series Jack Ryan, which will be heading into its third season, which more than likely won't be arriving until 2021 as production has not started for Season 3 because of the pandemic.