‘The Chi’ Sets Final Season Release Date at Paramount+

“The Chi” Season 8 has an official premiere date at Paramount+.

As previously announced, the eighth season of the show will be its last. The first episode will drop May 22 on Paramount+ Premium, with episodes rolling out weekly thereafter. The final season will consist of 10 episodes.

“The Chi” stars Jacob Latimore, Birgundi Baker, Luke James, Shamon Brown Jr., Michael V. Epps, Hannaha Hall, and Jason Weaver. The logline for the final season states, “As ‘The Chi’ enters its eighth and final season and its coldest winter ever, life or death choices must be made. The question becomes, who is willing to make them? It all collides in the biggest, most emotionally riveting way ever seen this season on “The Chi'”

Lena Waithe created the series and serves as an executive producer under her Hillman Grad banner. Justin Hillian and Jewel Coronel serve as executive producers and co-showrunners via Hillianaire Productions and Uncut Gems respectively. Additional executive producers include Common, Aaron Kaplan, Rick Famuyiwa, Resheida Brady-Anderson, Derek Dudley and Shelby Stone of ID8 Multimedia, Naomi Funabashi, Rishi Rajani and James Rogers III. Co-executive producers Deondray Gossfield and Quincy LeNear Gossfield return to direct multiple episodes. 20th Television is the studio.

Originally a Showtime series, “The Chi” is one of the longest-running shows in the now defunct network’s history. It ranks alongside shows like “Dexter,” “Homeland,” and “Weeds,” which all ran eight seasons at the premium cabler. Only “Shameless” ran longer, with that show wrapping up after 11 seasons in 2021.