New 9-1-1 Spin-off Announced, Ryan Murphy Reacts to Lone Star Cancellation

While one door has been closed with the 9-1-1: Lone Star cancellation, another one will be axed down soon enough. Franchise co-creator Ryan Murphy confirmed that a new 9-1-1 spin-off is in the works.

Created by Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Tim Minear, the procedural drama first premiered on Fox in 2018 before it moved to ABC during its seventh season. It then spawned a spin-off in 2020 — titled Lone Star — and ran for four seasons, with Season 5 having recently arrived.

Unfortunately, the fifth season of Lone Star will be its final season.

What did Ryan Murphy say about the planned 9-1-1 expansion?

“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 Variety.

On the Lone Star cancellation, Murphy said: “Sadly, we all love ‘Lone Star,’ but the financials just didn’t work. 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. So now 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.”

Other details about the new spin-off have yet to be announced.

9-1-1 chronicles the lives of LA’s first responders, including dispatchers, police officers, paramedics, and firefighters. The franchise features the likes of Angela Bassett, Peter Krause, Oliver Stark, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Rob Lowe, Brian Michael Smith, and more.

The eighth season of 9-1-1 airs on Thursdays on ABC. Lone Star, on the other hand, airs on Mondays on Fox.