9-1-1: Lone Star Showrunner Recalls announces “the Show is Canceled

9-1-1: Lone Star Showrunner Recalls announces “the Show is Canceled

The end is in sight for 9-1-1: Lone Star. Following the show’s final season premiere on Monday, co-showrunner Rashad Raisani opened up about how long she knew that Lone Star wouldn’t be returning beyond its fifth season.

Speaking with Variety, Raisani noted that even before the 2023 writers’ and actors’ strikes halted production across Hollywood, “the writing was on the wall about 9-1-1: Lone Star, because of [9-1-1/Lone Star studio] 20th Television getting purchased by Disney, and the contract cycle of 9-1-1, it ended in a way that allowed 9-1-1 to more seamlessly move over to ABC, and ours did not line up so cleanly.” She added, “So we knew it was going to be difficult to ever get through that,” explaining how “it would be hard for the show to go past Season 5 because of just nuts-and-bolts numbers that these two companies we’re dealing with.”