Now in its eight season, S.W.A.T. is the second longest-running scripted sequence at present on CBS. The community has not introduced it as a ultimate season.
“It’s been known as the ultimate season the final three or 4 seasons, hasn’t it?,” S.W.A.T. govt producer Ryan quipped throughout a Deadline interview concerning the second season of his hit Netflix sequence The Night time Agent.
He refers back to the reality the final two seasons of S.W.A.T. each have been thought of ultimate sooner or later. After a string of early renewals, the police drama starring Shemar Moore was dramatically canceled in Could 2023 after six seasons just for CBS to reverse the choice days later with a pickup of what was introduced on the time as a seventh and ultimate season. Flash-forward to Could 2024 when S.W.A.T. was surprisingly renewed for an eighth season.
Is Ryan — who was S.W.A.T. showrunner earlier than Andrew Dettman was named to the publish in Season 7 — hoping Season 8 gained’t the ultimate season both?
“The present I feel is beloved within the govt ranks at CBS, the present is beloved by our viewers. The present creatively, I’m blissful and considerably embarrassed to say, hasn’t dropped a step since I handed over the showrunning reins to Andy Dettman,” Ryan stated. “However we additionally perceive {that a} company change is occurring in that world. I do know David Ellison, I wrote a film for him again within the day.”
CBS is within the midst of an possession change, with Ellison’s Skydance within the means of buying CBS mother or father Paramount International. Fifteen years in the past, Ryan was tapped to write down a characteristic adaptation of Tom Clancy’s best-seller With out Regret for Paramount Footage and Skydance. The venture in the end didn’t transfer ahead.
“I don’t know what the plans are. I don’t know what the factors for renewal goes to be. It looks as if it may very well be a lot totally different than years previous,” Ryan stated concerning the upcoming CBS renewal selections, the majority of that are anticipated after the Skydance acquisition closes in March-April. “I don’t know if it’s a bonus or drawback that we’re produced by an out of doors studio this yr. I feel economics are going to play into issues, so it’s all unsure, however we’re simply going to proceed to make the perfect present we are able to that our viewers loves, and we’ll see the place the chips fall. And that’s what we’ve accomplished the previous few seasons. We’re actually pleased with the legacy of that present.”
S.W.A.T. comes from an unbiased studio, Sony Footage Tv, which co-produces the sequence with CBS sibling CBS Studios.
The sequence coming from an out of doors studio has performed a task in earlier renewal negotiations. As Deadline reported in 2023, an deadlock over the scale of the order, which might’ve harm the economics for Sony TV, was behind the present’s cancellation after six season. However Sony TV additionally has been credited with discovering methods to make offers with CBS which have stored S.W.A.T. on the air for therefore lengthy.
In line with sources, renewal talks between CBS and Sony TV haven’t began but. Once they do, all these components are anticipated to return into play.