Executive producer Lizzy Weiss confirms via her Twitter account recently that the fifth and final season of the American teen drama TV series “Switched at Birth” would premiere on Freeform in January next year.
Weiss did not specifically mentioned an exact date in January but her tweet told fans to start the countdown, reports the Christian Daily.
Season 5 of “Switched at Birth” shall have a shortened final year and shall only feature 10 episodes but Weiss says that it is a lot better than facing a cancellation that would leave her and the production team the opportunity to give the show a fitting conclusion.
Production for the final 10 episodes of “Switched at Birth” has just been completed last month, which was announced by Weiss on Twitter when she posted that filming for the series finale is over and done with, before ending her tweet with ‘Kennish Vasquez family forever.’
Returned to where it all began
Incidentally, “Switched at Birth” returned from where it first started when it shot the final scene of its Season 5 finale on the same place where the first scene of the pilot episode was shot five and a half years ago.
The modern irony was announced on Twitter by show creator Lizzy Weiss after posting that they have also officially completed filming sometime in the middle of April.
Weiss described the final filming as a tough yet beautiful day for the cast and crew members of “Switched at Birth.” She added that the weather was perfect and the house was stunning against the night sky.
She explained that all of the show’s writers drove in for the final shot and the cast members who were not in the final scene or even in the episode came in to be a part of the moment.
The show creator added that everyone’s family came by and there were also flowers, bottles of wines, homemade necklaces, and lovely ‘thank you’ cards. Crew members who worked together for thousands of hours hugged and teared up and took selfies, she noted.
She went on to say that they all stood on the magnificent front lawn of the iconic Kennish house clapping and marveling at the once-in-a-lifetime experience that it has become for all of them.
Sending off the main characters well
Weiss seems to have moved on from the initial disappointment she got when Freeform announced last March that Season 5 is going to be the last for “Switched at Birth.”
It was also a double-whammy for the TV series because apart from its cancellation after the fifth season, the network also decided to push back its Season 5 premiere supposedly from last month to next year.
She wrote on Twitter than Season 5 of “Switched at Birth” will air next year and the ending will be incredible. She said that fans will see the show’s final 10 episodes and how the TV series will send off the main characters.
The showrunner also said that she could not have possibly scripted a perfect ending and it was because of all the people who made it all happen, describing it as a little piece of magic, details the Ecumenical News.
Weiss also confirmed that Season 5 of “Switched at Birth” will see the show’s main characters Bay, played by Vanessa Marano, and Daphne, played by Katie Leclerc, continuing their adventures in college.
The showrunner said that she thought that time jump was unnecessary, which was the same strategy employed by its fellow teen series on Freeform “Pretty Little Liars.” Thus, there will still be a lot of experiences that the girls will face as students and as young adults in the fifth and final season of “Switched at Birth.”