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"Six Feet" Bound for Grave
It looks like Six Feet Under is due for a visit from the Grim Reaper.
To HBO's dismay, series creator Alan Ball has announced his intent to kill off the dark drama about a family that operates and lives out of a Southern California funeral parlor after its upcoming fifth season.
"Working on Six Feet Under has been enormously fulfilling creatively, but if the show is about anything, it's about the fact that everything comes to an end," Ball, who won a 2002 Emmy for directing Six Feet Under and a Best Screenplay Oscar in 1999 for American Beauty, said in a statement.
"I will miss working with such enormously talented writers, cast, staff and crew, and I'll always be grateful to HBO for allowing and encouraging us to tell the story we set out to tell in a challenging and uncompromising way."
The demise of the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning Six Feet Under will add to the quality programming challenges faced by the cable net, which bid adieu to Sex and the City in February and is set to lay The Sopranos to rest in 2006.
HBO Entertainment President Carolyn Strauss expressed disappointment over Ball's decision.
"I wish Alan had decided he wanted to do more, but I understand," she told the Los Angeles Times.
She said that Ball initially discussed ending the series last season.
"I think Alan felt he had told the story he wanted to tell," she said. "We're a network entirely dependent on our creators, and we take our cue from them."
The question is, is HBO really entirely dependent on its creators, or does it perhaps depend a smidge on its viewers as well?
If the latter dependency is at all a factor for the network, it needs to generate an arsenal of smart and catchy programming pronto?because Deadwood, Carnivale and Entourage have so far not proven to attract the same cult followings as Sex, Six Feet and Sopranos.
However, Strauss doesn't seem worried that the departure of three signature series will be the nails in HBO's coffin.
She pointed to the upcoming new epic Rome and George Clooney-directed comedy series Unscripted as indications that the network is alive and kicking.
"We have a lot of arrows in the quiver," Strauss told the Times.
The fourth season finale of Six Feet Under aired on Sept. 12, leaving the dysfunctional Fisher family in their usual conflicted states of angst, ensuring a juicy story line when the show returns.
The fifth and final season is set to feature 12 episodes which will likely begin airing in mid-2005, though scheduling has not been confirmed.
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