Netflix Just Confirmed Lucifer Will Be Returning for a Sixth Season

This comes as a pleasant surprise to many, as season five was intended to be the show's last, although rumors of a sixth season began to circulate when Deadline reported that contracts had been extended for the cast.

Lucifer stars Tom Ellis as the Devil himself, who has grown bored of reigning over Hell and comes to Earth to sow mischief. Once there, he becomes entangled in a murder investigation, and decides to use his otherworldly powers to aid Detective Chloe Decker (Lauren German) in solving her cases.

The show originally aired on FOX for three seasons before it was canceled by the network. It was then commissioned for a fourth season on Netflix, where it reached a global audience and became the most-streamed show on the platform in 2019, outperforming Stranger Things and Sex Education .

It was then brought back for a fifth and supposedly final season, with executive producers Joe Henderson and Ildy Modrovich stating that this would give them a chance to write a satisfying ending to the story. But fan outcry has proven that audiences aren't done with the Devil just yet, prompting Netflix to renew the show for one more season.

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"It's such a resilient show, it just won't die," Tom Ellis recently told Men's Health. "It's a testament to how we all love doing it; we put out hearts and souls into it."

He added that it has been an "extremely vindicating" experience to watch fans come to the show's defense: "When the fans spoke up, I've never felt such a rush of joy."