Six Feet Under next season will be last

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NEW YORK - "Six Feet Under," a quirky series about a Southern California family that runs a funeral parlor, will end its HBO run after its upcoming fifth season.



Alan Ball, creator and executive producer of the ensemble drama, which stars Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy and Rachel Griffiths (news), says he feels the show has run its course.


"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 said in a statement.


Production is set to begin next week. HBO confirmed Monday it would be the show's last season but hasn't said when it will air.


"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," Ball said.


The "Six Feet Under" cast won a Screen Actors Guild (news - web sites) award for best ensemble in a drama series this year. Conroy won a Golden Globe and a SAG award for her portrayal of matriarch Ruth Fisher.

I love this show, it gets a little uncomfortable with the gay stuff but overall it's one of the best written shows I have ever seen. It was a great premise and very well carried out and it's one of the premiere shows along with Oz & Sopranos that made HBO the premiere network on sunday nights.

with Oz gone, sopranos also coming up on its final season and no this show going away I wonder what HBO's gonna come up with to replace them.

The Wire is an awesome show, I really reccomend people watch it or catch up if they can. Season 1 was awesome, Season 2 slipped a little but was still great, Season 3 now in progress has much improved now that they have gone back to the original premise of the show with the Barksdale crew back in full force, the dramas reached the high point with last nights episode.

They have Carnivale but to be honest I watched a few episodes of the 1st season and I didn't really get excited or want to keep up.

Deadwood was pretty good at the begining but once they killed off Wild Bill I pretty much lost interest.