Renewed: Better Things

Better Things, starring creator Pamela Adlon, has been renewed for a fifth season due in 2021.

Adlon has also been signed a new overall deal with FX Productions, spanning all scripted and unscripted programming exclusively for FX, as well as potentially other divisions of Walt Disney Television.

“We are truly honored to work with Pamela,” Eric Schrier, President, FX Entertainment said. “She is one of the most talented artists in the business, which is exemplified through her work as a producer / showrunner, actor, writer and director. The most recent season of Better Things was its best yet and we’re excited about what’s to come in season five, as well as all of the future projects we are working on together.”

The series has also received a Television Critics Association Award nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Comedy and Adlon was nomination for Individual Achievement in Comedy.

Better Things screens in Australia on FOX One.

Better Things is the story of “Sam Fox” (Pamela Adlon), a single mother and working actor with no filter, raising her three daughters, “Max” (Mikey Madison), “Frankie” (Hannah Alligood) and “Duke” (Olivia Edward) in Los Angeles. She also looks after her mother, “Phil” (Celia Imrie), an English expat with questionable faculties who lives across the street. Whether she’s earning a living, navigating her daughters’ changing lives, or trying to have one of her own, Sam approaches every challenge with fierce love, raw honesty and humor.