Lucifer season 4 on Netflix: Release date, episodes, cast and everything you need to know
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Long live the Devil.
When Fox dared to cancel Lucifer after three seasons, fans turned their devastation into a huge campaign to #SaveLucifer – and guess who had the luck of the devil? It only went and worked.
On June 15, lead star Tom Ellis confirmed that Netflix had saved the show by ordering a fourth season.
"WE DID IT !!!!!!!!!!! Thank you to everyone for your continued support
and love for #Lucifer I am so happy for all our fans I'm going to
burst," he wrote.
But now that the Devil has risen again, what can we expect from season four on Lucifer's new home?
Lucifer season 4 cast: Who's coming back?
We've
not had any concrete confirmation on who's back yet, but Tom Ellis and
Lauren German have to be back as Lucifer Morningstar and Detective Chloe
Decker, especially as the season three finale saw Chloe finally seeing
Lucifer's true devil face after he killed Lt Marcus Pierce (Tom
Welling).
Aside from
those two, we'll likely see the returns of Kevin Alejandro as Detective
Dan Espinoza, DB Woodside as Amenadiel, Lesley-Ann Brandt as Mazikeen,
Aimee Garcia as Ella Lopez and Rachael Harris as Dr Linda Martin, among
others.
Prison Break's Inbar Levi is also joining the cast as Eve, the original sinner, who's pining after her first love Lucifer. After
an eternity with Adam, she's grown restless in her marriage and longs
for the charming rogue who tempted her so many years ago...
Lucifer season 4 release date: When will it arrive?
Co-showrunners Joe Henderson and Ildy Modrovich told TVLine that production is expected to start on season four in August 2018, with it expected to wrap up in December.
And true to their word, production started on season four on August 13 with the cast sharing a video from the set and taking a cheeky jab at Fox for cancelling the show in the first place.
That means we can't expect
season four to land anytime this year and we're looking at early 2019
at the earliest for season four to hit Netflix, but at least it'll be
the same everywhere so no Lucifer fan will have to wait for the new episodes.
Previously, Lucifer
has aired on Amazon Prime Video in the UK, but while nothing has been
confirmed yet, we think it's unlikely that it won't move to Netflix in
the UK as well.
Lucifer season 4 episodes: How many will there be?
The
season four renewal came with a bit of bad news as it was confirmed
that it would only be 10 episodes long, way down on season three's
24-episode run and shorter than the first (13 episodes) and second (18
episodes) seasons too.
Fortunately, though, those episodes might be slightly longer than we've come to expect from Lucifer.
Lucifer season 4 spoilers: What can we expect?
Since the show had been cancelled, the showrunners were pretty open after the season three finale about what season four would have centred around.
"That was the big thrust
of season four – exploring Chloe dealing with those ramifications, and
how it affected her relationship with Lucifer. Both professionally and
personally. Can you work with the Devil? Can you love the devil?" Henderson teased.
Modrovich added: "We also
had an exciting character from Lucifer's past who was going to come in
and mix everything up. A very personal, intimate figure who we won't
reveal the identity of yet… until we find out if we get the chance to
tell the tale on a new network."
So now at least we'll get to find out who that figure will be, but maybe not straightaway as the showrunners have said their original idea for season four will now be split in half. "We were going to have two parts to it anyway, so we'll just tell a really strong, gnarly first part," Modrovich enthused.
Henderson
adds that doing so "lets us concentrate the story and focus it, and
that's what's really exciting about this", adding: "We have a really strong first half that is now going to make for an amazing story."
The bonus episodes gave a hint as to how Chloe dealt with the season-three finale bombshell
too in a conversation with Ella after she'd been visited by the ghost
of an old acquaintance. "I have seen a lot crazier things. Like, a lot," Chloe replied – and generally seemed pretty chill with it.
And whatever happens in the story of season four, we can also expect more adult content now that the show isn't on a broadcast network, such as when they couldn't show Ellis's "wonderful, wonderful booty" during a scene in season one when Lucifer came out naked.
