It‘s Official, There will be a Sixth Season for ‘Lucifer’ on Netflix

After Lucifer star Tom Ellis closed a deal to return as the title character, the sixth season of Lucifer is now moving closer to reality.

 

Netflix earlier this year started talks with series producer Warner Bros. TV about another installment of the comic book drama beyond the upcoming fifth season, which was earlier declared as final season of the series. Executive producers Ildy Modrovich and Joe Henderson, who have been steering the show, has quickly closed new deals for another season.

 

It took lengthy, difficult negotiations with Ellis but he also recently signed on to return. The rest of the cast are also on board, sources said. With all key pieces in place, Netflix is expected to proceed with the pickup.

The plan had been for Lucifer to go back into production in September on Season 6, though the show will need to first finish filming Season 5, which was impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. According to Deadline, the show had four days from Season 5 left to shoot when production was suspended in March.

 

Lucifer started on Fox, which canceled it after three seasons. Netflix picked the series, extending its run by two seasons. Last summer, Netflix renewed the show for a fifth and “final” season. While 4-5 seasons is typical length for a successful Netflix series, and Lucifer has produced more episodes than a regular Netflix original series.

 

At 77 episodes through five seasons, Lucifer is already one of the longest running Netflix original series whose episode count is between Orange Is the New Black (91) and House Of Cards (73).

 

Lucifer, based on the comic book characters created by Neil Gaiman for DC’s Vertigo Imprint, Sam Kieth and Mike Dringenberg for Vertigo, stars Tom Ellis, Lauren German, Rachael Harris, DB Woodside, Lesley-Ann Brandt, Aimee Garcia, Tricia Helfer, Scarlett Estevez and Kevin Alejandro.

 

Based upon the characters created by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth and Mike Dringenberg, LUCIFER is the story of the original fallen angel. Lucifer Morningstar, bored from his sulking life in hell, comes to live in Los Angeles. While there, he helps humanity with its miseries through his experience and telepathic abilities to bring people's deepest desires and thoughts out of them. While meeting with a Detective in his nightclub (Lux), a shootout involving him and the Detective leads him to become an LAPD consultant who tries to punish people for their crimes through law and justice.

Lucifer is produced by WBTV in association with Jerry Bruckheimer Television. The series is executive-produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman, Joe Henderson, Ildy Modrovich, Sheri Elwood and KristieAnne Reed.