Yes, ‘9-1-1’ and ‘Lone Star’ Will Have Some ‘Crossover Action’ This Season, Showrunner Says
variety.comJennifer Maas TV Business Writer“9-1-1” and spinoff “9-1-1: Lone Star” will be reunited on Fox’s Monday primetime lineup when the O.G.
show comes back from hiatus in March. When the two are once again airing in the back-to-back 8 and 9 p.m. time slots they held last spring, showrunner Tim Minear says there will be definitely be some “crossover action.”But don’t get too excited yet, because the “9-1-1” and “Lone Star” chief assures Variety that whatever he has planned will not compare to the massive wildfire episode he orchestrated last year that brought three “9-1-1” characters over to “Lone Star.”“The pandemic didn’t go away, so it’s still super complicated to make these shows,” Minear said. “There will be some crossover action in the back half of this season.
Don’t expect a giant crossover where all the characters from one show appear on the other show. But there will be some cross-pollination.
They’re almost treats. I don’t know that they’re big events like the wildfire. I’m trying to keep the universes as cross-pollinated as I can without cheating.” Minear emphasized that he doesn’t want to a crossover of that level again until he can do it right, because “servicing all of the characters on both shows is a challenge.”“When we did the wildfires, we brought over three characters and then I decided on what the pairings were going to be: T.K. (Ronen Rubinstein) and Buck (Oliver Stark), and Hen (Aisha Hinds) and Owen (Rob Lowe), and Eddie (Ryan Guzman) and Marjan (Natacha Karam) And that was the way I could, over the course of 44 minutes, try to get at least three stories happening.
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