Paramount+ has renewed SEAL Team, starring David Boreanaz, for a seventh season. The renewal comes two months after the popular military drama’s Season 6 finale, which ended on a cliffhanger. The delay, compared to the Season 6 renewal that came a week after the Season 5 finale, prompted fans to launch a social media campaign #RenewSEALTeam, which has seen the show’s title trend multiple times over the past few weeks.
I hear there’s no behind-the-scenes footage, and the delay is largely due to back-and-forth arguments over how to produce the series more efficiently for streaming. Since SEAL Team was originally a broadcast series, it uses studios and sets that are used for about nine months of the year to film 22 episodes per season. Now that number has been reduced to 10 episodes per season for Paramount+, keeping all those sets around year-round would incur storage fees since they’re unused for more than half of the time. With all productions taking a hard look at their budgets amid a tightening industry, I hear SEAL Team is doing the same.
Paramount+’s Season 7 renewal announcement made no mention of the standalone SEAL Team movie, which was announced last February, just days after the Season 6 renewal. No details were released about the greenlit project beyond the creative team, star/executive producer Boreanaz, executive producer Christopher Chulack, and executive producer/showrunner Spencer Hudnut.
I hear the show isn’t dead, but there’s been no word on it in the past year and it seems to be on hold and not in active development at the moment. So it’s safe to say that Season 7 will follow the events of Season 6, with no interludes.
Season 6 ended with an emotional scene in which Jason (Boreanaz) was reprimanded for speaking publicly about his TBI. Then everyone on his team stepped forward, sharing their own traumatic experiences and putting Bravo’s future in jeopardy.
“We look forward to bringing SEAL Team fans even more of the series’ deep storylines and thrilling missions with the upcoming seventh season,” said Tanya Giles, Paramount Streaming’s head of programming. “The series continues to grow and expand its audience. It’s a great example of the types of shows we see our subscribers resonate with.”
As usual, there’s no performance data on SEAL Team, but it’s said to be one of the top original series on the platform.
SEAL Team follows the professional and personal lives of the Navy SEALs’ most elite unit as they train, plan, and execute the most dangerous and high-risk missions our country could ask of them. Boreanaz plays Jason Hayes, the respected and passionate team leader, alongside Neil Brown Jr., AJ Buckley, Toni Trucks, and Raffi Barsoumian, who is reportedly contracted for another season. Original cast member Max Thieriot, now the star and executive producer of CBS’ hit new series Fire Country, returns for Season 6 to wrap up the story of his character, Clay Spenser.
