Power might be renewed for Season 6, but the Starz crime drama certainly wont survive ’15 or 10 seasons,’ the producers have conceded, per Deadline:
We’ve created a template for the show that is non-Hollywood,” says Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson of the shocking death of his Kanan character on last night’s episode of Power. “Anyone can go, there’s no one in the show that can’t die,” the executive producer of Starz’s most watched series asserts.
“This show was not designed to go 10 seasons,” adds fellow EP and series creator Courtney Kemp of how the death of Jackson’s character pivots Power towards its eventual conclusion. “It was not designed to go 15 seasons. It’s not a crime procedural or a sitcom. It’s a closed-ended story that really begins and, in some way, ends with Ghost,” she notes of the Omari Hardwick portrayed drug lord trying to make it in the legit world.
Indeed, this “iteration” of Power is likely to end after Season 7, inline with the initial arc for the show:
JACKSON: The decision was made early on when Courtney and I discussed how the arc of Kanan’s story would end. You see, we slated the show to go seven seasons initially, because we created it with the success of The Sopranos in mind.
KEMP: All I’ll say is that this iteration of the show with me as the showrunner, that iteration of the show is going to have to end because the story that I wanted to tell is almost over. That has to be the way that it is, otherwise we’re going to end the show badly. We’re going to end the show really in like a whimper instead of a bang, and I need it to be a bang.
Will Power seal its own fate with a seventh and final season renewal, or will the cancellation reaper stop the show dead in its tracks after six? Could Power spawn a spinoff show?
Either way, the end of Power as we know it is near. Stay tuned as the chase heats up…
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