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where did you hear that this is the final season?
http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271|91671|1|,00.html'Six Feet' Over at HBO
(Saturday, November 06 09:27 AM)
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) HBO's quirky, critically praised drama "Six Feet Under" will be put into the ground after next season.
Creator Alan Ball has told network executives that next season, the show's fifth, will bring the series about the dysfunctional, funeral-home-owning Fisher family to a creative endpoint. Filming is set to begin Nov. 16; HBO hasn't set a premiere date yet.
"Working on 'Six Feet Under' has been enormously fulfilling creatively, but if the show is about anything, it's about the fact that everything comes to an end," Ball says in a statement given to the Hollywood trade papers. "... I'll always be grateful to HBO for allowing and encouraging us to tell the story we set out to tell in a challenging and uncompromising way."
The show has earned 39 Emmy nominations since it debuted in 2001 and won seven, including trophies for Ball's direction on the pilot episode and outstanding guest actress in 2002 for Patricia Clarkson. Most of the show's regulars have earned acting nods as well.
Ratings, however, generally haven't been as big as those for HBO's flagship series, "The Sopranos," or "Sex and the City." Last season the show averaged about 3.7 million viewers.
Like "The Sopranos" and "Sex and the City, "Six Feet Under" was a brand-defining show for HBO. Its departure will shift more of the pay-cable network's drama load to shows like "Deadwood" and "Carnivale," which are both set to return in the first half of 2005. HBO is also developing "Big Love," a series about a Utah polygamist, and the period epic "Rome."