Six Feet Under is Getting a Follow-Up Series at HBO

HBO appears to be resurrecting Six Feet Under. Reportedly a follow-up series is in very early development at HBO, but with no writer yet attached, it’s not yet clear what the creative direction will be. There’s no word yet on if this new show will be a reboot or reimagining of the original version, or if it will serve as a sequel series with connections to the original storylines and returning characters. These decisions are still being finalized with the project so early into conception.

Per Variety, original series creator Alan Ball has come on board along with executive producers Bob Greenblatt and David Janollari; all three are executive producing the new show. Word is the show hasn’t been ordered to series and it’s still possible it won’t work out, as there are some concerns about adversely affecting the perception of the original show’s ending.

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“When we convened for season five, we knew it was going to be the last season,” Ball said in 2016 of the show’s definitive ending, suggesting there was no desire to ever pick back up with these storylines. “So, for the first time, we had to come up with the ending of the season first. There were a lot of ideas going around and some of them completely crazy like the discussion of Ruth developing Alzheimer’s disease and talk of there being a terrorist nuclear attack on Los Angeles and the whole season would be the Fishers working out a post-apocalyptic world. These didn’t make sense to me. Then somebody at the table said, ‘We should kill everybody.’ Everybody laughed like it was a joke, but the more we talked about it, the more we realized that’s exactly what we should do.”

He added, “I didn’t watch it when it aired — I had seen it probably 50 times at that point. There was no moment of, like, ‘Oh, wow,’ but there certainly was an appreciation of how powerful the final scene was. I was relieved about that because it did seem to end in a way that felt satisfying and it’s so final. It also maintained a lot of what the show is about, life in the constant presence of death.”

Originally, Six Feet Under aired on HBO for five seasons between 2001-2005, following the lives of the Fisher family and their associates in running a funeral home in Los Angeles. The series starred Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose, Freddy Rodriguez, Mathew St. Patrick, Rachel Griffiths, and Richard Jenkins. It was a highly successful show that earned great acclaim and 53 total Emmy nominations, winning nine of them.

After Six Feet Under ended, Ball created True Blood for HBO. That show is also reportedly getting rebooted at HBO as well, but it’s also in early development without a lot of information about its plot. This follows many other classic shows returning on HBO Max which also includes the recent premiere of And Just Like That…, a Sex and the City revival. This news comes to us from Variety.

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