Only Murders In The Building Season 5 Confirmed

The fourth season of Only Murders In The Building may well have only just begun on Disney+, but more murders at the Arconia are already in the pipeline from US streamer Hulu. Per Deadline's reporting, the beloved comedy murder mystery show — in which Steve Martin, Selena Gomez, and Martin Short play a trio of true-crime obsessed podcasters with a knack for being in the wrong place at the right time — has been picked up for a fifth ten-episode season of crime solving hijinks.

Since its premiere back in 2021, Only Murders In The Building has enjoyed quite the run, amassing award nominations and notching up incredible guest stars like nobody's business. To date, the show has garnered a whopping 49 Emmy nominations, and the Arconia's revolving door of icons has seen the likes of Sting, Amy Schumer, Paul Rudd, and actual Meryl Streep share the screen with the series' ever-present central trio of unlikely best buds. News of a renewal then comes as no surprise, especially with Season 4 getting off to such a cracking start. So far, the latest outing's brilliantly bananas movie-within-a-show set-up has seen Zach Galifianakis, Eva Longoria, Eugene Levy, and Scott Bakula enter the fray as Mabel (Gomez), Charles (Martin), and Oliver (Short) investigate the murder of Charles' stunt double Sazz (Jane Lynch) whilst navigating a Hollywood adaptation of their podcast. It's all very meta stuff!

The continued success of Only Murders only serves as further proof that we're living in the Murder Mysterennaisance right now. With Knives Out threequel Wake Up Dead Man, Richard Osman adaptation The Thursday Murder Club, buzzy new Netflix Nicole Kidman starrer The Perfect Couple, and a second season of Columbo-like Rian Johnson caper Poker Face all well on their way, the humble whodunit has well and truly entered a new golden age. Catch us, in the lounge, with the TV remote, watching all of these *ahem* killer films and shows as they reach us.