Fox will add the final four episodes from the current second season of comic book-inspired drama Lucifer to next season. The decision, made for scheduling reasons, does not impact the size of the recent Season 3 order for Lucifer, which remains for 22 newly produced episodes. The four carryover episodes will be included on top of that order.
The Lucifer move was foreshadowed by Fox’s summer schedule and premiere dates announcement yesterday, which featured a two-hour So You Think You Can Dance airing on Mondays, starting June 12. Lucifer, which is returning with new episodes on May 1, will air five of its remaining 9 original episodes, with the season finale slated for May 29.
If you’re worried that episode 18, which serves as the season finale, will be a bit anti-climatic because of the change then rest assured because Lucifer executive producer Joe Henderson told Twitter that this is not the case.
”We designed this season to be an 18 episode arc because we originally were going to be 18 episodes. But then we got 4 more! Surprise! So we decided to create four episodes that let us play around a bit. Dig deeper into the character stories, play with format a bit, etc. The four episodes stand on their own, but also pick up plots we’ve introduced and bring in new stuff we’ll play with season 3.”
As a 13-episode midseason entry in spring 2016, Lucifer received a 13-episode Season 2 order last May. While the producers may have envisioned a shorter run, in October, Lucifer got a Back 9 order for a full, 22-episode second season.
