FX confirmed Friday afternoon that the cable network has picked up Sons of Anarchy for two more seasons, bringing it up to season six. The show’s creator, Kurt Sutter also signed a three-year overall deal to write and produce future projects with 20th Century Fox Television and FX Productions, which produce Sons of Anarchy.
According to The Wrap, FX is also expected to later pick it up for a seventh and potentially final season.
Sons of Anarchy is easily the top-rated show on FX. Entertainment Weekly reports that the Ron Perlman and Katy Segal-starring series had its best season ever with season four. The season averaged 18 percent more viewers in the key 18-49 rating demographic and 21 percent more viewers overall in comparison to season three.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, which first reported the news, part of Sutter’s deal includes complete control over the series and not having to worry about ratings. FX has been successful in the past with deals like this, having handed full control to The Shield’s Shawn Ryan and Rescue Me’s Peter Tolan and Denis Leary. This allowed the shows to have true endings without having to worry about getting renewed for the next season and ending on a cliffhanger.
Sutter is often candid on his Twitter account and criticized FX’s failure to break the story of his deal immediately. According to The Los Angeles Times, he wrote, “closed my deal for 3 more years on SOA. no headlines, no pushed schedule, no stealing from paul. thank you FX and 20th for your generosity.” That post has now been deleted, but he later wrote, “Yep, we locked down six seasons. Thanks for all the cheer.”
Season five of Sons of Anarchy will start in the fall.
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giants won last night and now this? unbelievable. thank you, eli and kurt.
According to The Wrap, FX is also expected to later pick it up for a seventh and potentially final season.
Sons of Anarchy is easily the top-rated show on FX. Entertainment Weekly reports that the Ron Perlman and Katy Segal-starring series had its best season ever with season four. The season averaged 18 percent more viewers in the key 18-49 rating demographic and 21 percent more viewers overall in comparison to season three.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, which first reported the news, part of Sutter’s deal includes complete control over the series and not having to worry about ratings. FX has been successful in the past with deals like this, having handed full control to The Shield’s Shawn Ryan and Rescue Me’s Peter Tolan and Denis Leary. This allowed the shows to have true endings without having to worry about getting renewed for the next season and ending on a cliffhanger.
Sutter is often candid on his Twitter account and criticized FX’s failure to break the story of his deal immediately. According to The Los Angeles Times, he wrote, “closed my deal for 3 more years on SOA. no headlines, no pushed schedule, no stealing from paul. thank you FX and 20th for your generosity.” That post has now been deleted, but he later wrote, “Yep, we locked down six seasons. Thanks for all the cheer.”
Season five of Sons of Anarchy will start in the fall.
source.
giants won last night and now this? unbelievable. thank you, eli and kurt.