FX Renews 'The League' For Fifth Season

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FX has greenlit a fifth season of the fantasy football-themed comedy series The League, the network announced Thursday.

The network has ordered 13 additional episodes of the series, which concludes its fourth season tonight (Dec. 20) with back-to-back episodes beginning at 10 p.m. The League is averaging 1.63 million viewers and 1.45 million adults 18-49 during its current season.

"The League is flat-out one of the funniest shows on television," said Nick Grad, executive vice president of original programming for FX Networks, in a statement. "Co-creators Jeff and Jackie Schaffer have such a perfect take on the material and the show has an amazingly talented ensemble cast of stars. Another season was an easy decision and we hope to have it on our schedule for many more years to come."

R. Thomas Umstead
R. Thomas Umstead

R. Thomas Umstead serves as senior content producer, programming for Multichannel News, Broadcasting + Cable and Next TV. During his more than 30-year career as a print and online journalist, Umstead has written articles on a variety of subjects ranging from TV technology, marketing and sports production to content distribution and development. He has provided expert commentary on television issues and trends for such TV, print, radio and streaming outlets as Fox News, CNBC, the Today show, USA Today, The New York Times and National Public Radio. Umstead has also filmed, produced and edited more than 100 original video interviews, profiles and news reports featuring key cable television executives as well as entertainers and celebrity personalities.