F Is for Family Renewed for Fifth and Final Season at Netflix
The Murphy family is returning for one last hurrah. Netflix has renewed the animated comedy F Is for Family for a fifth and final season, to bow in 2021.
The news — which was first reported in Vulture‘s Buffering newsletter — comes less than four months after the release of Season 4, which dropped on June 12.
“Working on this show with the great Bill Burr, Vince Vaughn, and our amazing cast, writers, producers and crew has been the greatest joy of my life, and I’m thrilled that we get to do one more season with the Murphys,” said co-creator and executive producer Michael Price. “I’ll be forever grateful to everyone at Netflix who let us share this stressed-out, foul-mouthed and loving family with the world.”
“It has been so great to see Mike [Price] and Bill [Burr] — two guys I admire and respect — create something like this and build it from the ground-up,” said executive producer Vince Vaughn. “It has been a lot of fun getting to be a part of it, and I’m looking forward to continuing to support their vision for the final season.”
The ’70s-set ‘toon, which originally premiered in 2015, was created by Simpsons vet Michael Price and comedian Bill Burr (who voices family patriarch Frank). Burr is joined by Laura Dern (Big Little Lies), Justin Long (New Girl), Sam Rockwell (Fosse/Verdon), Haley Reinhart (American Idol), Mo Collins (MADtv) and Jonathan Banks (Better Call Saul). Vince Vaughn is an executive producer.
F Is for Family is the latest Netflix original to be guaranteed a final season. Also on tap are farewell runs for Atypical, Dead to Me, Dear White People, GLOW, Grace and Frankie, The Kominsky Method (minus Alan Arkin), Lost in Space, Lucifer (which still has the second half of Season 5 to release ahead of Season 6), Money Heist and Ozark.
Not so lucky are a string of recent freshman series, including The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance and multi-cams Ashley Garcia: Genius in Love and The Big Show Show — all of which have been axed. Recent cancellations also include Altered Carbon, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, I Am Not Okay With This, The Society and Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj.
TVLine’s Streaming Scorecard has been updated to reflect F Is for Family final-season pickup. How are you feeling about the bittersweet news? Drop a comment below.
Theres lots of stories to tell with this family! Why cancle something good
Union contracts allow for all the main talent to renegotiate after 5 seasons, no matter how many eps per season.
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In other words, it was about to get way more expensive, and NF has no way to monetize the show going forward. Ergo, canceled.
I still need to watch the 4th season. Still, I’m glad Netflix is giving it a chance to end on its own note rather than just cancelling it without warning.
Sorry for the fans, but at least they know it’s the last!
I’m impatiently waiting for what will happens with Umbrella Academy. It’s been 2 months already, which makes me think either cancellation or a renewal but season 3 will be its last.
I just want to know either way. I’m googling the show everyday like a darn crazy person
I guess the original animated series-es on those SVOD networks really don’t have the ability and freedom to run for 20-plus years just like linear TV series such as The Simpsons have done. This will likely disappoint those who think animated series-es should not have limits to their potential run-lengths (I am not one of them, BTW).
Really love this cartoon I hope you reconsider keeping this going for 10 more seasons.
Aww man . Well all good things come to end and this show F is for family is 1 of my faves . Love Burr and cast and hope to see a complete dvd with outtakes if possible.
Hubby and I enjoyed it and would be a great addition to our dvd collection 😉