9-1-1: Lone Star may be ending with its fifth season, but series creators Ryan Murphy and Tim Minear are working on a brand new spinoff for ABC.
Speaking to Variety, Murphy confirmed, “Tim Minear and I are working on a new spinoff that we’re actually writing and we’re hoping to air next fall.”
9-1-1 was created by Murphy, Minear, and Brad Falchuk and debuted on Fox on January 3, 2018. Fox canceled the series in May 2023, but ABC quickly stepped in and saved the show. However, the Lone Star spinoff, which debuted on January 19, 2020, will not be moving to ABC.
“Sadly, we all love Lone Star, but the financials just aren’t working out,” Murphy explained. “It was a Disney show that was on Fox and it never took off. And we had a long run with it. So now we’re launching a new show in a new city that I can’t name, but it’s going to be fun.”
The seventh season of 9-1-1 premiered on ABC on March 14, 2024, and was quickly renewed for an eighth season, which premiered on September 26, 2024. “9-1-1 went to ABC and suddenly became, I think, the biggest show on Thursday night,” Muphy added. “They obviously had interest in that show, so we’re going to give them another show that I really love.”
Lone Star stars Rob Lowe as firefighter Owen Strand, alongside Ronen Rubinstein, Jim Parrack, Natacha Karam, Brian Michael Smith, Rafael L. Silva, Julian Works, and Gina Torres.
In an interview with Variety in August, Lowe said of Lone Star’s fifth and final season, “We all went into it with the idea that this was going to be the last, so that influenced everything we did. We really wanted to show people what could still be done on network television if people were interested in doing it.”
“We wanted to go out and prove the value of shows like this, and I think we did a great job,” he continued. “The stories that we were able to tell every week in terms of scope and scale—that’s probably what I’m most proud of. They really felt like miniseries every week.”
