🏳️🌈 Multifandom of Queer Shows 🏳️🌈 •9-1-1,
•9-1-1: Lone Star,
•Shadow & Bone,
•Heartstopper,
•Young Royals,
•KinnPorsche,
•Shadowhunters,
•Roswell New Mexico,
•Red White and Royal Blue,
•Interview With The Vampire
The 12-episode fifth season of Lone Star will be used to launch Fox’s two new drama series, delayed to next season by the strikes, Rescue HI-Surf and Doc. The network is so high on the former, it just ordered seven more episodes, bringing the lifeguard drama’s freshman season to 19 episodes.
The move last year of Fox’s most watched series of 2022-23, 9-1-1, to ABC after six seasons over cost concerns raised questions about the long-term future of the network’s second most watched scripted series, spinoff 9-1-1: Lone Star. The speculation intensified after Deadline revealed in November that Lone Star (which is less expensive than the mothership) wouldn’t be airing new episodes this season, with many wondering whether Season 5 would be the first responders drama’s last on Fox.
Sources at both Fox and producing studio 20th Television stress that no decision on the future of Lone Star will be made until Season 5 airs next fall.
Still, sustaining a high-end drama like Lone Star from an outside studio under a model better suited for a vertically integrated network and studio is challenging. 20th TV is reportedly running a deficit on the show, and the two sides could not find a way to make new episodes this season. Fox had been targeting an 18-episode order — six episodes for midseason and 12 for fall — ultimately settling on a 12-episode Season 5 pickup for 2024-25 season.
Side note (as if there's a main note?), I'm rewatching KinnPorsche and honestly just mad respect to Porsche who gets recruited for a job that pays serious bank, shows up to the guy's house, and proceeds to just wreak havoc on his new employer, the family, and the family's pet fish.
My man has not even two braincells to rub together, no thoughts in his head but chaos and vibes, and still bags the biggest baddie in the house. An inspiration.
[Character Editions: Pete Part I & II | Vegas Part I & II & III | Tay | Tankhun - Part I | Big | Porsche Part I & II | Kim | Porchay | Chan | Kinn Part I & II | Macau | Pol]