FX Renews 'The League' for Fifth Season

Season four averaging 1.63M viewers and 1.45M adults 18-49 on first-run basis

By Tim Baysinger -- Broadcasting & Cable, 12/20/2012 12:52:02 PM

 FX has renewed comedy The League for a fifth season.

Production on 13 episodes will begin next summer and season five will premiere in the fall.

For its fourth season (which wraps with back-to-back episodes Thursday at 10:30 p.m.), The League is averaging 1.63 million viewers on a first-run basis and 1.45 million adults 18-49. On a multi-run total basis, season four is drawing roughly 2.43 million total viewers and 2.09 million adults 18-49 per week.

"The League is flat-out one of the funniest shows on television," said Nick Grad, executive VP of original programming. "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."