Lucifer Has Officially Gone Into Production For Season 6

It's a bittersweet moment for Lucifer fans as production has officially begun on the sixth and final season.

While everyone will be excited about the idea that the sixth instalment will soon be on Netflix, it means we will finally have to say goodbye to Tom Ellis' character and everyone involved with the show.

The co-showrunner for the series Joe Henderson has revealed the big news on Twitter.

He wrote: "Today is our first day of shooting Lucifer season 6! So happy we've finished up season 5, and we will be working our buns off to get it finished and to Netflix!

"Thanks to our incredible cast and crew for working hard and safe and delivering a kickass finale!"

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For the uninitiated, Lucifer is a fantasy/drama series that centres around the enticing character of Lucifer Morningstar, better know as the devil, as he decides to bin off his cushy life in Hell and trade it up for Los Angeles.

He first starts to run a nightclub before becoming a consultant with the LAPD.

Six seasons is a pretty good run for a show that never looked like it would get beyond the third.

It was cancelled by Fox, but then later picked up by the people at Netflix - a tale as old as time - who gave it a new home, and a new lease of life.

There's no word on when we can expect to see the sixth instalment on our screens, but the second half of the fifth is due to drop early next year.

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Speaking to the Pilot TV podcast, Ellis said: "The second eight episodes, I'm not sure when they're going to drop because we've still got the finale.

"We were about halfway through it. So we go back, we start with that, and then we go straight into season six. So hopefully that'll be ready to go, I would imagine, sort of Christmastime or early next year."

Season five had previously been billed as the show's final instalment, but after Lucifer fans clamoured for another outing, it was saved... again.

Some fans had previously claimed season five would be Ellis' last hurrah as the titular character, with one site even suggesting he was going to be replaced by Vampire Diaries star Ian Somerhalder for a sixth season.

Like many fan theories, however, this was absolute tosh and Ellis is here until the end.

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Stewart Perrie

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