Lucifer season five FIRST LOOK: Tom Ellis reprises his demonic role

It was recently teased ‘beloved characters will die’ in the upcoming series of Lucifer.

And the first trailer for season five of the hit Netflix show suggest the next season will be the most explosive yet, as Tom Ellis reprises his title role in the show.

The end of season four saw Lucifer leave his LA home and his on/off love Chloe Decker [Lauren German] behind as he returned to resume his position in hell.

However no sooner did he leave, Lucifer appears to have already made a return in the new trailer for the next season of the programme.

All is not as it seems as Chloe admits Lucifer is acting ‘strangely’, while he brushes away her concerns by revealing he may have changed slightly while in hell.

Yet all is soon revealed as Mazikeen [Lesley-Ann Brandt] questions him on why he didn’t take her back to hell with him when he left, before he shockingly confesses he is Lucifer’s twin brother, Michael.

The twin menacingly states that he has not come to ‘ruin’ Lucifer’s life, but instead wants to take it for himself.

But it may not be plain sailing for the doppelgänger, as the end of the trailer suggests that Lucifer won’t make it easy for him. 

The new trailer comes after it was revealed Netflix has ordered a sixth and final season of its hit show Lucifer.

Early Tuesday morning the show’s Twitter account made the announcement calling it the ‘FINAL final’ season, joking: ‘The devil made us do it.’

The new season order came two months before the fifth season begins to stream on the platform in August. 

Sharing a video of a burning ‘666’ the tweet joked ‘the devil made us do it, #Lucifer will return for a sixth and final season. like FINAL final.’

Last month, title star Tom closed a deal to return in his role for a sixth season, Deadline reported.

Executive producers Ildy Modrovich and Joe Henderson and the rest of the cast also extended their contracts for the last season. 

The news comes nearly two months before the fifth season begins to stream on Netflix. The fifth season was originally billed as the final season. 

Netflix gave the fifth season a premiere date of August 21, on Sunday.  

The series – which will air in two batches of eight episodes – will return to the streaming site on August 21, delighting fans who have been desperate to see what will happen next, since it last aired in 2019.

Netflix announced the air date, along with the following statement: ‘In the stunning fifth season, the stakes are higher than ever! 

‘Secrets will be revealed, beloved characters will die, and we’ll finally get an answer to the question, “Will they or won’t they?”‘

Season 5 was commissioned by the network after Fox cancelled the dark thriller at the end of its third run.

It was renewed by Netflix for a fourth season, after which it was green lit to continue on with a fifth and final run.

But fans are speculating that bosses could have changed their minds, and that there will be a sixth, after excitable enthusiasts noted that Netflix has not touted season 5 as the last – whipping up much of a frenzy as a result.

After transferring to Netflix, the show became the number one binged show on the site for eight weeks, despite Fox getting rid of it thanks to ‘bad ratings’. 

Fans were mortified when the show was initially axed from Fox, with a final episode shelved.

Much to the relief of avid Lucifer enthusiasts, Fox decided to air it after all. Season 4 then followed on Netflix in 2019.

The series follows fallen angel Lucifer Morningstar who becomes sick of ruling Hell and so returns to Earth.

Ending up in Los Angeles, he begins running a nightclub and ends up becoming a consultant to the LAPD, all the while battling a series of seraphic threats that descend upon the city.