Originally conceived as a workplace-focused sendup of the spy/secret agent genre, the first four seasons of Archer found the title character and the main cast working as spies for the I.S.I.S. Agency run by Sterling's domineering mother. Season 5 opened with the reveal of I.S.I.S. having been an illegal operation subsequently shut down by the CIA, leading the characters to make a career-swerve into (failed) drug-trafficking in the season long "Archer: Vice" storyline. Season 6 saw a return to (now "official") spy work, while season 7 moved the setting to Hollywood for the private investigator scenario.

The series has been renewed through its 10th season, which the creators have already predetermined to be the last. The series has also jumped networks from its original home on FX to the sibling FXX network, where its reruns currently share block-booking with The Simpsons as "Archer: Nocturnal Missions."

Archer: Dreamland is set to debut on FXX in Spring of 2017.

Source: FXX