Another cancelled TV show has been resurrected by Netflix. The streaming service has ordered a fourth season of Longmire, the dramatic series that A&E dropped earlier this year. The 10 new episodes will debut sometime next year.
Here’s their press release:
NETFLIX ORDERS FOURTH SEASON OF LONGMIRE
Rousing Western Thriller from Warner Horizon Television to Premiere Exclusively in US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
Series To Return for 10 New Episodes in 2015
Beverly Hills, Calif., November 19, 2014– Netflix, the world’s leading Internet TV network, has ordered a fourth season of the hit drama Longmire, from Warner Horizon Television. Ten new episodes of the series will premiere exclusively in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand in 2015.
“When Warner Horizon Television came to us with the idea for a new season of Longmire, we were intrigued because the series is so unique, and consistently great. We are thrilled to help continue Walt Longmire’s story for his large and passionate following,” said Cindy Holland, Vice President of Original Content at Netflix.
In a joint statement, the Longmire executive producers said: “We’re excited and honored to have the opportunity to bring this show that we love so much, and all its devoted fans, to Netflix.”
Season four of Longmire picks up moments after season three’s exciting finale. Walt Longmire (series star Robert Taylor), having found out who was behind the murder of his wife, succumbs to his darker impulses and takes off in pursuit of the killer with murder on his mind. Meanwhile, Branch Connally (Bailey Chase), the deputy who Walt fired for erratic, violent behavior, believes he has already figured out who the real culprit is. But during his confrontation with this suspected killer, a gun goes off. Now the audience will finally learn what happened, and whether Walt can be stopped before he makes a fatal choice.
Longmire, the contemporary crime thriller set in Big Sky country, is based on the Walt Longmire mystery novels by best-selling author Craig Johnson. The series stars Australian actor Robert Taylor (The Matrix) as Walt Longmire, the charismatic, dedicated and unflappable sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming, along with Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica, Riddick), Lou Diamond Phillips (Southland, La Bamba), Bailey Chase (Damages), Cassidy Freeman (Smallville) and Adam Bartley (Justified).
Longmire is produced by The Shephard/Robin Company in association with Warner Horizon Television. Hunt Baldwin (The Closer, Trust Me), John Coveny (The Closer, Trust Me), Greer Shephard (The Closer, Major Crimes, Nip/Tuck) and Michael M. Robin (The Closer, Major Crimes, Nip/Tuck) serve as executive producers.
About Netflix
Netflix is the world’s leading Internet television network with over 53 million members in nearly 50 countries enjoying more than two billion hours of TV shows and movies per month, including original series. Members can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on nearly any Internet-connected screen. Members can play, pause and resume watching, all without commercials or commitments.
About Warner Horizon Television
Warner Horizon Television (WHTV) is one of the entertainment industry’s leading producers of scripted series for the cable marketplace and primetime reality series for both network and cable. A division of the Warner Bros. Television Group, WHTV was founded in 2006. WHTV’s current scripted programs are Rizzoli & Isles for TNT; Ground Floor, Sullivan & Son and the forthcoming Buzzy’s for TBS; Pretty Little Liars for ABC Family; and Longmire for Netflix. Its unscripted series are The Voice for NBC and The Bachelor franchise — which also includes The Bachelorette and Bachelor in Paradise — as well as the upcoming 500 Questions for ABC.
What do you think? Are you looking forward to seeing the fourth season of Longmire? Are you already a subscriber? If not, will you subscribe to see the new episodes?
Netflix: you are my hero! Have always had a soft spot for you and now you have moved to the top of my favorite list! A&E was erased, btw. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Longmire and its wonderful list of characters and excellent plots are what good shows are all about. You rock!
That’s great! I can’t wait for the new season of Longmire 🙂
That’s great! I can’t wait for the new season
of Longmire 🙂
That’s great! I can’t wait 🙂
Nice to see Netflix saw the show as many viewers like myself do, unique, entertaining, visually stunning. A&E dropped the ball on this one and I will be subscribing to Netflix. Yea, what we need is another pathetic “reality” show, or maybe another cooking or shopping show. With the number of seemingly mindless shows increasing its nice to have something like Longmire to watch.
I totally agree…there are way too many mindless shows out there and A&E seems to have more than there fair share of them.
longmire next season
14. Yes!t Cannot. Wait!
Thank you Netflix…only A & E would cancel LONGMIRE and keep Duck Dynasty. Sad commentary on the viewing public…
I look at it the other way.
If those shows can’t beat Duck Dynasty, how good are they really?!
Remember, the game is to attract lots of viewers, not create something that critics will declare worthy…
Like I said….sad commentary on the viewing public. Duck Dynasty may have a lot of viewers, but the show is idiotic. Watching ONCE was more than enough for me….something intelligent that makes you think should never get beat out by stupidity.
Like I said…. 😉 it may be “idiotic” to you but a lot of people (not me so keep the insults on my intelligence for other topics 😉 ) found it more entertaining than supposedly great shows.
Again, the game is “Attract a lot of viewers with quality” not “attract critics”. 😀
So glad to hear this!!
All I want to say is THANK YOU NETFLIX. This is why I choose to pay for your service when there are so many areas to watch for free. I can usually find the most current new releases and you get better all the time. Again Thank You.
Thus spoke the PR person… 😉
Just so you know from The Wall Street Journal “Longmire” averaged 5.6 million viewers this season. An earlier version of the chart accompanying this article incorrectly said 4.6 million.”
http://online.wsj.com/articles/why-a-hit-tv-show-got-canceled-its-fans-were-too-old-1410451057
Deadline Holloywood “Longmire‘s viewership has dipped only slightly in Season 3 to 5.6 million viewers”
http://deadline.com/2014/08/longmire-cancelled-by-ae-will-be-shopped-elsewhere-826379/
So as long as you want to hate on the show because you stock price is not doing what you want, try more than 1 source for your numbers.
FYI, I don’t know what either of them are using for their ratings but they’re not the traditionally reported Live + same day ratings. Compared to season two, season three of Longmire was down about 5% in viewers (3.5 mil from 3.7 mil) and down 24% in the 18-49 demo. You can see the weekly numbers and averages here: http://wp.me/pcisc-8xK
Yes, the higher viewer numbers are the Live+3 and Live+7 numbers, not the Live SD numbers used by advertisers. Also, I don’t think the extra million viewers added after same day viewing contributed much at all to 18-49 demo rating. I think Warner Horizon had to go with a streaming platform because an ad reliant network couldn’t make money on the advertising, especially if Warner didn’t give up any portion of ownership. I’m glad that Longmire gets another season, if only to give a proper ending. I hate when shows end a season on a cliffhanger.
The show was canceled. Warner Horizon is trying to continue making it in the hope it will make money in syndication, something that’s very far from a given.
Thanks Admin. 🙂
They more than likely got those numbers from a PR release that added up re-runs, etc…
It’s a very bad habit of the PR people and sadly few journalists are like you and check the numbers before re-printing them.
It is usually bad form to use your own numbers as a reference for backing up your numbers. So this site references its own webpage as proof for those numbers? Must be nice there “admin” 🙂 Do I get to reference my own post as proof for higher numbers? 3.5 or 5 really is not the question, how many will follow the show to Netflix and sign up, how many like me that already have Netflix are already subscribers and how do they make a profit on my watching since I am not paying more money (since they are not… Read more »
Frankly we’ll NEVER know if it was a profitable move for Netflix, as it’ll be next to impossible for them to track that down and in any case they’ll say it was hugely successful (that’s what they say about everything they do…)
As for the numbers, those are the real numbers. Check them out elsewhere if you have a doubt.
They’re not secret (unlike everything having to do with Netflix projects!)
The Live Same Day average viewership was 3.5 million. The larger numbers quoted in the various articles are the Live+3 and Live+7 numbers which are not traditionally relied upon by advertisers. Warner Horizon was smart going with an online streaming platform. It would have been difficult to take to an ad reliant network due to the demographics. Unless, Warner was willing to give up some of their ownership, a network may not have been able to make enough from advertising as stated in the WSJ article. I’m am glad that the show is being given a fourth season. Hopefully, there… Read more »
That won’t be the first (or last) time WSJ’s incompetent media section published erroneous or misleading numbers. The usual numbers are the overnights (which is what most people are talking about), although to your point of how many fans would want to watch more on Netflix, it’s one of those rare cases where including the repeats and unpaid Live+50 (or whatever the number keeps climbing…) is not irrelevant. 🙂 Deadline’s numbers are also wrong. What can I tell you. Check Wikipedia and the actual overnights, not the copy-and-paste PR that tries to pass itself off as “journalism” these days. 🙂… Read more »
Glad at least some people will enjoy it though. 🙂
I am going to have to get netflix
Glad to see that NetFlix realizes that potentially 5 million people following Longmire has to be good for their business (and WTF are you talking about Rena? 5 MILLION people watching on Netflix is a major success). I wish it were more than 10 episodes but I am guessing Netflix is wanting to see how many of that 5 Million people that watched every week will flock to Netflix before they make a larger investment.
Well… It was more like 3.5 million, but I guess the main point is that you’re assuming that Netflix is going to get 3.5 million (or 5 million) new subs by making more of it, which is not how it works.
Netflix is building itself on hype and buzz (not very solid things to build a company on and why the stock keeps playing roller-coaster) and it thinks making more episodes of shows that have flopped like Arrested Development is great PR, but success is built on real hits.
Netflix-produced series are usually budgeted at around $4 million/episode, or $40 million for a 10-episode season. They charge $9/month for its streaming service. Maybe I’m missing something, but it seems like Longmire only has to attract around 400,000 new subscribers ($3.6 million/month, $43.2 million/year) to pay for itself. Is it reasonable or unreasonable to expect that 10% of Longmire’s audience are non-subscribers who will now sign up for it?
Well, count me in that 10%. I have resisted subscribing to Netflix for years because my cable bill is already SO high, but now I have no choice. I LOVE Longmire, have from the very first episode, and couldn’t imagine missing it regardless of where it landed. I am thrilled to see a fourth season pickup, and I am very happy for all the actors and everyone else associated with this fabulous series. They shoot just a couple hours away from me, maybe I’ll mosey up there one day and take them all cupcakes!
Good question, UBSNews. 🙂 Given that none of the numbers Netflix releases are real (that $4 million per episode appears entirely fanciful to me as a network show shooting in Hollywood would cost $2-$2.5 million until the actors start getting paid huge amounts of money – and everybody else’s salaries inch up too). And Netflix does not have the constraints (union and otherwise) of the networks. That said, your calculation is interesting, although someone only subscribing to get the show would (if they stick with their all-at-once release pattern) only have to subscribe for a month… The same calculations can… Read more »
Sure, people could only subscribe for a month, but the truth is that few people actually do that. And if a percentage of new sign-ups also subscribe to the DVD service (an additional $9/month), that means added profit for Netflix. Several separate sources indicate that network dramas average $3 million per episode, not the $2-$2.5 you’re citing. Last year, a CAA TV agent revealed that Netflix was spending more than the broadcast networks do for hourlong series—providing those $4 million/episode estimates—and pointing out that Netflix will also make profit on the back end, as they plan on syndicating their shows… Read more »
UBSNews: Sorry the site would not let me respond after your post. 🙂 I had to grin widely when you mentioned a CAA agent as someone worthy of being trusted when he gives price information… That was quite funny (if you don’t think so then you don’t know Hollywood agents which is a good thing, trust me 🙂 ). Cost is always fungible so the $3 million is a “true” as $4 million or $2 million. It depends what you include and how you calculate the number (NCIS costs a lot more than that but that’s not because of production… Read more »
Netflix continues to think its success will lie with making more episodes of shows not enough people are watching, remakes and adaptations…
Just befuddling and sad…
6 million people, are you crazy?
Longmire is an excellent show. I just signed up to Netflix because of this news.
Thanks Netflix!!!
Now 3.5 became 6..?
I’ll raise you to 7.5 million then… 😉
Seriously, how many subs will they get? Not many (though they got yours and I’m glad for you if you enjoyed the show).
Hollywood’s problem is making more of shows that don’t work and not making enough hits.
Netflix continuing chows that haven’t worked does nothing to help the trend (and very little to help itself!)
I am harsh on Netflix because I keep reading how “creative” they are but all they do is remakes, adaptations and continuations…
Gosh…I’d kinda stopped thinking that good news was even possible anymore. THANK YOU Netflix!!!!! Congrats to a fabulous cast and production outfit! We certainly appreciate what you’re doing so very well!!!
They should have picked up The Glades also
I do agree, maybe it is still possible??????
That’s why I question their policy of picking up shows no longer working for their network.
If they were going to make tons of money with each of them, they’d just have to pick everything up. That just sounds preposterous on its face.