FXX's Archer season 11 had been scheduled to premiere in May, but now it's been pushed back to an indefinite point later in 2020. Ever since its debut back in 2009, Archer has pushed boundaries, poked at cultural sensibilities, and otherwise shocked and entertained audiences with the comic antics of Agent Sterling Archer of ISIS (not that one).
After airing seven critically acclaimed seasons on the FX network, the show moved to the cable channel's sister station, FXX, alongside other comedies like It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. In recent years, Archer has moved away from its spy roots, with the last three seasons being set entirely within Archer's mind as he lays in a coma. Recent seasons have been set in a variety of different time periods and places, like 1930s film noir and outer space in the distant future of 1999.
Season 11 will finally feature Sterling waking from his three-year coma and presumably return to a regular life, or at least what passes for a regular life on a show as absurdly ridiculous as Archer. However, audiences will have to wait a little longer to learn what misadventures lay in store for Archer, Lana, Cyril, and the rest of the gang. According to a statement from FXX, Archer's new season has been pushed back from its previously scheduled May 6 premiere date to an unknown point later in 2020:
Due to production challenges and scheduling issues, season 11 of FXX’s Emmy award winning animated comedy series Archer will no longer premiere on May 6th. FX will shift the premiere date to later this year.
One downside of the modern television landscape's tendency towards shorter seasons is that audiences are forced to wait longer between the end of one season and the start of the next. Archer season 10 ended in July 2019, and if the new season is delayed more than a couple of months, it will have been over a year between the end of the last season and the start of the next. Of course, that's a better fate than what has befallen other shows, like some of The CW's Arrowverse shows, which weren't able to wrap production on their current seasons before the coronavirus pandemic forced them to shut down.
Even though it's a tough pill to swallow now, it's for the best that Archer season 11 is being delayed. No television show or film is worth endangering the lives of workers, their families and anyone they could potentially come into contact with. For now, social distancing and shelter-in-place is the golden rule, and maintaining those rules are the key to surviving this crisis and being able to return to some semblance of normalcy in the (hopefully) near future.
Source: FXX