9-1-1: Lone Star’s Return Delayed: Season 5 Pushed Back Until Fall 2024

Dave Nemetz
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The wait for new episodes of 9-1-1: Lone Star just got a lot longer.

Season 5 of the Fox procedural has been pushed back to fall 2024, TVLine has confirmed. It was expected to return this spring along with many other network TV shows after the dual Hollywood writers’ and actors’ strikes were resolved. Instead, it will now wait until next fall, when it will return for a 12-episode fifth season.

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Fox and producers 20th Television were originally discussing a 18-episode order, our sister site Deadline reports, with six episodes at midseason and another 12 next fall. But with the SAG-AFTRA strike only just ending last week, plans changed, and the decision was made to hold Season 5 until the 2024-25 TV season. (A source tells TVLine that the economics of a full season just wouldn’t work, even for a successful show like this.)

9-1-1: Lone Star stars Rob Lowe as firefighter captain Owen Strand, with Ronen Rubinstein as paramedic T.K. Strand and Sierra McClain as 9-1-1 operator Grace Ryder. The supporting cast includes Jim Parrack, Natacha Karam, Brian Michael Smith, Rafael L. Silva, Julian Works, Gina Torres, Brianna Baker and Kelsey and Skyler Yates.

Fox renewed Lone Star for a fifth season in May, with it averaging 5.9 million total viewers and a 0.8 demo rating (with Live+7 playback). it ranked second for the season among all Fox dramas behind only the original 9-1-1, which has moved to ABC for its upcoming seventh season.

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