iZombie season 5 is coming for your brains.
The CW has renewed its fun, crime-solving zombie comic book adaptation for a fifth season, according to Variety.
iZombie comes from talented creator Rob Thomas (not Carlos Santana’s friend Rob Thomas but Veronica Mars and Party Down creator Rob Thomas). It follows Seattle medical student Olivia “Liv” Moore (Rose McIver) who is turned into a zombie in the show’s pilot. Liv Moore (hehe) doesn’t become the stereotypical shambling and decaying zombie as long as she stays well fed on a diet of brains. To keep the brains coming she gets a job at a morgue where she consumes the brains of the dead so she can keep her wits about her.
This is a charming, teen-oriented show.
Loosely based on a Vertigo comic of the same name, iZombie is indeed a charming little mystery show. After Liv consumes brains she is imparted with the memories and talents of that brain’s owner, which often come in handy for a forensic pathologist working with the Seattle police department. Edgar Wright’s Shaun Of The Dead was often branded the world’s first “zom-rom-com” but Rob Thomas one-upped that with iZombie‘s “zom-rom-com-dram” formula.
iZombie has never been a ratings juggernaut for The CW. Its current fourth season is averaging fewer than one million viewers per episode. But with all due respect, not many non-Riverdale shows are ratings powerhouses for The CW. With that as an accepted fact of the life the network is usually able to get away with just keeping shows around it likes and that generate conversation.
It certainly helps that Rob Thomas, his producers Diane Ruggiero-Wright, Danielle Stokdyk, Dan Etheridge, and studio Warner Bros. Television are all known and respected quantities for The CW.