By India McCarty
The final season of S.W.A.T is finally coming to Netflix!
“Netflix has confirmed that S.W.A.T. season 8 will be arriving on the streamer on Monday, September 15, finally giving the cancelled cop show a large-scale streaming home,” ScreenRant reported. “The upcoming episodes will join the previous seven seasons, which are currently available to watch on Netflix.”
Keith LeGoy, Chairman of Sony Pictures Television, spoke to Variety about the show’s popularity on the streaming service, saying, “I think the library being at Netflix has actually enabled another large cohort of fans to discover the show, and to become part of the S.W.A.T. world.”
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S.W.A.T has had a bit of a tumultuous history. The show was cancelled in 2023 after six seasons, but CBS later rescinded the cancellation. Season 7 was advertised as the final season, but later, an eighth season was ordered. The show was cancelled again this spring, ending after eight seasons.
“It felt very clear from CBS that this was the end,” Sony Pictures TV Studios exec Katherine Pope told Variety. “It was a difficult decision for them, but it felt very final. So we set out to sell the show elsewhere. We tried really hard, and we felt like we got close at a place or two, but we just couldn’t quite get it over the line.”
This isn’t the end of the franchise, though. S.W.A.T: EXILES was announced earlier this year, with star Shemar Moore set as the only original cast member to join the show.
“There is a S.W.A.T family and that family is important,” LeGoy said, via Deadline. “We would love to have other family members involved in some way, whether it’s all of them all of the time, some of them some of the time, or something in between. That’s something that we are still figuring out.”
In the interview with Variety, LeGoy spoke about the process of pitching S.W.A.T: EXILES, saying they had to “make sure that we had a great creative take.”
“Is there some risk? Yeah, there’s absolute risk,” he continued. “This is a business that was built on people taking risks. We did what studios do, which is to measure the risk against the upside, and to bet on our ability to tell a compelling story and then to deliver that to audiences around the world.”
With the complete S.W.A.T. series on Netflix and a spin-off on the way, fans of the franchise have plenty to watch!
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