Lucifer has been saved! In an eleventh hour deal Netflix has swopped in and picked up the series for a fourth season. The streaming service brokered a deal with studio Warner Bros. and FOX TV within 24hrs of the contract deadline.
Had a deal not been reached by June 16 the actors contracts would have relinquished and allowed them to move on to new projects.
The Netflix incarnation of Lucifer is set to debut in 2019 with 10 new episodes. Those episodes are confirmed to run the standard 43-45mins. Given the length of network television series this will roughly halve the length of the shows fourth season.
“We were going to have two parts to it anyway, so we’ll just tell a really strong, gnarly first part,” co-showrunner Ildy Modrovich told TV Line. “[Doing so] lets us concentrate the story and focus it, and that’s what’s really exciting about this. We have a really strong first half that is now going to make for an amazing story,” said co-showrunner Joe Henderson.
Don’t count Lucifer out yet, the showrunners are not planning this to be the final season.
“There is always the potential for more,” confirmed Modrovich.
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