(Michael Desmond / Showtime)
Ray is getting ready to take a bite out of the Big Apple. Today, Showtime announced it has renewed its Ray Donovan TV show for a sixth season, and the crime drama will move from Los Angeles to New York City, for season six.
A Showtime crime drama, Ray Donovan stars Liev Schreiber, Jon Voight, Eddie Marsan, Dash Mihok, Steven Bauer, Katherine Moennig, Pooch Hall, Kerris Dorsey, and Devon Bagby. As a professional fixer (Schreiber), it’s up to Ray to make the biggest problems of celebrities, athletes, and business moguls disappear.
Learn more about the Ray Donovan renewal from this Showtime press release.
10.23.2017
SHOWTIME PICKS UP HIT DRAMA RAY DONOVAN FOR SIXTH SEASON
Series Set To Relocate To New York City,
Production To Begin In Early 2018
LOS ANGELES, CA – October 23, 2017 – SHOWTIME has ordered a sixth season of its hit drama series RAY DONOVAN, starring multiple Emmy® and Golden Globe® nominee Liev Schreiber and Jon Voight in his Golden Globe winning role. The announcement was made today by Gary Levine, President of Programming, Showtime Networks Inc.
Consisting of 12 episodes, the sixth season is set to relocate from Los Angeles, where it has been based for the past five seasons, to New York City when production begins in early 2018, following an intensely emotional season five that finds Ray in turmoil and needing to rebuild his life anew. The RAY DONOVAN fifth-season finale airs this Sunday, October 29 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. RAY DONOVAN is one of the network’s top dramas and is currently averaging nearly 5 million weekly viewers across platforms.
”RAY DONOVAN broke new ground this season with its deeply emotional and innovative approach to Abby’s passing, without sacrificing any of the intensity that has been its trademark,” Levine said. “We so appreciate that David Hollander is never satisfied with the status quo, and his creative plan for moving the show to New York reflects his relentless ambition for this series.”
“For our show, creatively, New York is exciting. Fashion, media, finance, theatre, culture. It’s going to present new challenges for Ray Donovan which mean new opportunities for us as dramatists,” said showrunner David Hollander. “Ray came to Los Angeles to build a life for himself and his family. They’re not there anymore. Ray’s career has changed and he is looking for a place to rebuild his life. Ray thinks he went to New York to help his daughter. He’s going to find out he’s there to help himself.”
The current season of RAY DONOVAN finds Ray (Schreiber) turning his attention back to Hollywood and his celebrity fixer firm, while struggling to deal with the recent death of his wife and family matriarch Abby (Paula Malcomson). As the season comes to a close, Ray’s fractured relationship with his daughter Bridget (Kerris Dorsey) draws him to New York to make amends for a past wrongdoing. In the riveting season finale airing this weekend, Ray enlists the help of Hollywood mogul Sam Winslow (played by Oscar® winning actress Susan Sarandon), who agrees to help Ray, but on the condition that Ray commit a brutal act. Meanwhile, Mickey (Voight) tries to get himself out of jail by turning the tables on Ray. The cast also includes Eddie Marsan, Dash Mihok, Steven Bauer, Katherine Moennig, Pooch Hall and Devon Bagby. Additional season-five guest stars include Brian White (Chicago Fire), Adina Porter (American Horror Story), Rhys Coiro (Entourage), Lili Simmons (Hawaii Five-0), Tara Buck (True Blood), C. Thomas Howell (Criminal Minds) and Dominique Columbus (Sickhouse). A SHOWTIME production, RAY DONOVAN is executive produced by Hollander, Mark Gordon, Bryan Zuriff and Lou Fusaro, and was created by Ann Biderman.
For more information about RAY DONOVAN, go to: SHO.com, follow on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, and join the conversation using #RayDonovan. SHOWTIME is currently available to subscribers via cable, DBS and telco providers, and as a stand-alone streaming service through Apple®, Roku®, Prime Video and Google. Consumers can also subscribe to SHOWTIME via Hulu, Sony PlayStation® Vue and Amazon Prime Video.
What do you think? Are you still watching the Ray Donovan TV series? Are you looking forward to the Showtime TV show’s new setting in season six? Sound off, in the comments.
When Ray jumped off the top of that building I thought it was the end of the show…but when he hit water I had some hope that another season might still be possible…which I find it is. So happy to hear that another season is in the works. I’ve watched every episode and will continue to do so next season. Liev Schreiber is such a great actor and manages to blend both evil and goodness into a character that somehow elicits sympathy and understanding from the audience, mainly I believe because of his tortured and abused past. This kind of… Read more »
We love Ray Donovan on Showtime. So glad that it will be renewed for season six.
Great show, it’s disappointing that the son’s of monsters are nearly written out of the show but I do like the complexity of the father-daughter relationship. Chloe’s character is great and I look forward to see were Ray’s life goes next.
Big fan of the show, and absolutely the only reason why I subscribe to Showtime. If Ray Donovan throws in the towel so will I. Even though I loved Abby’s character, and how Ray and everyone interacted with her I believe it to be a brilliant and creative idea to kill her character off. You have to keep the story line uncomfortable and moving in a unexpected direction keeping all TV viewers / fans of the series on the edge of their chairs. Love it and looking forward to season six. I am originaly from NYC, and moved to the… Read more »
season 5 was horrible i will give season 6 a try but there needs to be alot of changes
I love this show, well acted, well written… can’t wait till next season! PLEASE come back, so few shows offer the complexity’s that this show has! Taps into so many emotions! Thank you for appealing to an audience that appreciates multi dimensional characters.
Ray Donovan is absolutely the best show!! Love it!!!
Can we be extras on the set in NYC?!
So so happy that Ray Donovan has been renewed for another season, many thanks and it’s great that he’s moving to New York. Keep up the good work, Ray Donovan is just THE best tv show !
Thank you for renewing Ray Donovan, our favorite TV show. Can’t wait to see what Season 6 brings!
I wait all week to see Ray Donovan and truly enjoy the acting and story lines. Parts are played by exceptional actors. Voight is great to watch just to see what he comes up with next to make Ray miserable. Thanks for the powers that be for the renewal.
Love that show hope it stays forever.
Best news of the year! Easily the best show on TV, and I hope this new location gives us at least 5 more years of stories.
Fantastic news! Will be looking forward to this season finale as well as season 6!
Love me some Ray!! Can’t get enough!
Thank you for giving us a 6th season, at least a season outside of Abby… award winning 5th season!
Best in the business writing!
I don’t really care where they film it and I agree Season 5 sucked b@lls! Killing Abby and relocating and or getting rid of every other character, even Ray jumping to his supposed death was pointless and stressed me out watching. I don’t get it. The only good to come out of it is that there is a Season 6, whenever you need Susan Sarandon to pick up the pieces you are not doing well, that’s just my belief. I would make it a dream sequence or maybe make New York a dream and he wakes up in Season 7… Read more »