Archer Creator Plans to End Series With Season 10

The final three seasons will be just eight episodes each.

By Alex Osborn

Adam Reed, the writer and executive of Archer, says he plans to wrap up FX's popular animated series with Season 10.

"The plan is to end Archer after Season 10," Reed said on a recent episode of the Modern School of Film’s Murmur podcast (via HitFix), noting that he was initially going to conclude the series with Season 8, but "had sort of a brain explosion of a way that I could do three more seasons and really keep my interest up."

Reed went on to reaffirm that the final three seasons will be a bit shorter, with each spanning just eight episodes. He also said Seasons 8 through 10 will not only be "pretty different" than the previous seven, but also "different from each other."

With regard to wrapping up the beloved show while it's still incredibly popular, Reed said, "I do think that things can go on too long," and instead of continuing Archer simply because there's still money to be made, "maybe those creative energies could be better used coming up with something new rather than continuing the same thing."

Archer stars H. Jon Benjamin as Sterling Archer, Jessica Walter as Malory Archer and Aisha Tyler as Lana Kane, all three of whom will be back for Season 8.

Alex Osborn is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

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