FX Renews The League for Season 4
The League
FX has renewed fantasy football comedy The League for a fourth season, the network announced Tuesday.
"The League continues to be one of our most successful comedy series both creatively and from a ratings standpoint," said Nick Grad, executive vice president of original programming at FX. "[Executive producers] Jackie and Jeff Schaffer, along with our terrific cast, are doing wonderful work each week to make one of the funniest shows on television and we're excited to order another season."
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The series, which stars Paul Scheer, Mark Duplass and Nick Kroll, has been averaging 1.7 million viewers in its third season, and featured guest stars including Seth Rogen, Sarah Silverman and Eliza Dushku.
"We are thrilled to do more shows with a cast that makes us laugh hard every day, on a network that actually lets us put those jokes on air," said the Schaffers. "In the words of Taco: The League on FX on Thursday nights is a law, like water or dinosaurs."
Production on the 13-episode fourth season will begin in the summer for a fall 2012 premiere.