9-1-1 Franchise to Expand With Second Spinoff, Ryan Murphy Confirms
Major cities of America, you’ve been warned: The next bee-nado could happen in your area.
9-1-1 co-creator Ryan Murphy has confirmed his plans to expand the 9-1-1-verse via a second spinoff, to air on ABC.
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“[Series co-creator] Tim Minear and I are working on a new spinoff that we’re actually writing, and that we hope to get on the air next fall,” Murphy told our sister publication Variety on Tuesday. “We’re going to launch a new show in a new city that I can’t name, but it’s fun. And 9-1-1 moved to ABC and suddenly became, I think, the biggest show on Thursday night. They obviously have an appetite for that, so we’re going to give them another one that I really love.”
Murphy offered no further details on the potential spinoff’s location or premise. ABC had no comment when reached by TVLine. And at the risk of making this all about us, news of a second 9-1-1 spinoff was one of TVLine’s fall TV predictions earlier this week; you can scroll through the rest of our prophecies below.
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This new offshoot would be the third show in the 9-1-1 franchise, following the Los Angeles-set OG series (currently airing its eighth season Thursdays at 8/7c on ABC) and the Austin, Texas-based 9-1-1: Lone Star, now in its fifth and final season on Fox (Mondays, 8 pm).
“Sadly, we all love Lone Star, but the financials just didn’t work,” Murphy continued. “It’s a Disney company that was on a Fox network, and it just was never going to work. And we had a long run of it.” (The 9-1-1 mothership also initially aired on Fox, but relocated to ABC starting with its seventh season.)
Lone Star co-showrunner Rashad Raisani previously told TVLine that “those corporate factors at play — our distribution business and financiers and networks and all that stuff — was above our creative heads” when it came to ending the show with Season 5, but promised that the final batch of episodes will “give a beautiful send-off to each and every one of these characters.”
9-1-1 fans, would you watch another spinoff? Where do you think this one will be set? Hit the comments with your guesses!
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