Lucifer was originally the property of Fox, which ran the first three seasons. Suddenly, the network canceled it and Netflix stepped in to save the day, acquiring its rights and renewing it for a fourth season. After the huge number of views, the streamer renewed it for a fifth season, declaring it would have been the last one. In a sudden announcement, Netflix stated the show got renewed for a sixth final season. According to Comicbook.com, although much of the credit for vouching for a sixth season goes to the fans who fought hard using a lot of petitions, main star Tom Ellis (Once Upon A Time, The Flash, Merlin), who plays the mysterious Lucifer, also helped the series from getting cancelled too.

The sixth season ended in 2021, and fans enjoyed being able to see how Lucifer’s redemption arc concluded, and where the rest of the main characters ended up.

The actor has appeared on an episode of the Inside of You podcast, hosted by Michael Rosenbaum (Smallville, Guardian of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Guardian of the Galaxy Vol. 3). The episode can be seen via ComicBook.com. Ellis stated that when he got the news that the show had not been renewed while he was attending a convention as a special guest to fans, he shared the information via social media to alert fans of the imminent news. Right after that, Ellis was receiving messages from fans, which led him to decide to keep talking about the show to try to pick it back up.

Ellis explained it all in an interview, via ComicBook.com. “Eventually, l got a call later that weekend from a guy called Peter Roth, who was head of Warner Bros. TV. Warner Bros. was our studio, and they made it for Fox.” “And he said, ‘Tom, I want you to know, we’re not ignoring all this stuff that’s happening on social media. We are gonna try and do something about it.’ And so I said, ‘What do you need me to do?’ And he said, ‘Can you get over here to LA, keep soaking the fire as it was?’ So, I got myself to Heathrow Airport, and I had a message from BBC News Night. And they said that they had been noticing what was happening on social media… about the show. Did I want to appear as a guest on the show to talk about that and to talk about television changing and all these things, and I was like, ‘Absolutely.'”

Ellis continued to explain how it all happened, via ComicBook.com.”So, I got to LA, and then I ended up doing like a studio bit back to London about this, and for the next kind of week and a half, two weeks, it just became like all I talked about, and all people were asking me about.” “And then, you know, a couple weeks later, I’d sort of been tipped off from Peter that things were progressing well and then we got the Netflix announcement and it was the most vindicating, wonderful experience and I didn’t feel quite so bad about pressing send on that tweet.”

Something about Lucifer has always appealed the fans, this show becoming a fan-favorite while it was airing on Fox, and sometime later, on Netflix, as it ended up being one of the streamer’s most viewed series. The co-showrunner of Lucifer, Ildy Modrovich (CSI: Miami, Eleventh Hour, Necessary Roughness) shared her thoughts on how stunned she was to see Lucifer becoming this successful all of a sudden.

In an exclusive interview, according to ComicBook.com, Modrovich shared, “It’s very, very odd and fabulous.” “I mean, we were just in our little devil-solving-crimes bubble, not knowing that anybody was really watching. We kind of had no idea, and then when we got canceled, and everybody rose up in the great war to bring us back. We were stunned. We were talking about it earlier, but it’s like we became fans of the show, because the fans were so impassioned. It was infectious. We were like, ‘They love it! We do too!’ And we just got more and more excited to bring them things. We would be in the room going, ‘Oh, they’re going to love this,’ or ‘Oh, no, no, no, no. That’ll piss them off. Let’s not do that.’ We were so protective of it, because people were so moved by our show, or loved it so much.”

Lucifer is now streaming all six seasons on Netflix.