Hawaii Five-0 ending with the current Season 10

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The popular action crime drama, a reboot of the 12-season 1968-1980 classic CBS series of the same name, will end after 240 episodes and 10 seasons on Friday, April 3 with a two-hour series finale. Hawaii Five-0 stars Alex O’Loughlin as McGarrett and Scott Caan as Danno. "I hear both of their current contracts are up at the end of this season," reports Deadline's Nellie Andreeva. "O’Loughlin suffered a serious back injury during the early seasons of the show, and has been dealing with effects from it ever since. There was speculation that he may leave the show two years ago but he stayed on after receiving a stem cell treatment for his back. I hear this time around, he felt he could not continue. I hear the network explored continuing Hawaii Five-0 with Caan’s Danno and a new partner but ultimately, everyone felt that this was the right time to end the series." As Andreeva points out, Hawaii Five-0 "was one of the last broadcast drama series to score a blockbuster off-network deal, landing $2 million an episode from TNT during the series’ first season on CBS." Peter Lenkov, who created the Hawaii Five-0 revival and who has overseen it the past 10 seasons, says of ending the show: “Hawaii Five-0 has been such a blessing to me and all of the people who have worked on this incredible show. I truly learned the meaning of ‘ohana’ as the viewers embraced us and the people of Hawaii welcomed us with the privilege to film on their shores. I am forever indebted to the creative genius that was Leonard Freeman who gave us such a beautiful story to begin with. And my eternal gratitude to our cast, led by our hero Alex O’Loughlin, the writers, the production team, our CBS ohana, and most importantly –YOU, the fans, who allowed us to come to work with pride and made our series such a success. Mahalo.” O'Loughlin adds: "This show has been pretty much every waking moment for the last 10 years of my life. Everywhere I go on this planet, in every language, I am McGarrett to all these people. What we’ve done, what we’ve accomplished, it’s extraordinary. I can’t really put words to express my level of gratitude. I’m just glad to have been a part of this, a part of history and I’m going to miss it. And to the fans, I don’t know how to thank you guys. Thank you for following us the way you have. I’m going to miss you. Aloha.”

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CBS unveils its plan to fill the March Madness void, including splitting up Hawaii Five-0's two-hour series finale

The network has changed up its plan for Hawaii Five-0's two-hour sendoff after 10 seasons on April 3. Instead, the first hour will air on March 27 and the second hour will air on April 3. The change means that a new Blue Bloods will air April 3 instead of a rerun.

Hawaii Five-0 offers an emotional series finale trailer

The April 3 series finale will wrap up 10 seasons with new and old faces.

Hawaii Five-0 boss Peter Lenkov thinks it was CBS' decision to ultimately pull the plug after 10 seasons

“I thought we had a chance of maybe going another season — every season, I thought for some reason the show would end — but I think the network just thought it was a good time” to wrap things up, Lenkov tells TVLine. “There are so many different things that factor into this — economics, everything — and I think they felt it was the right time.” Lenkov adds that he doesn't think that Alex O’Loughlin, who has often suggested that he might exit over the show's wear and tear, or that Scott Caan had anything to do with the cancelation. Lenkov adds that he always had a series finale in mind prepared for the day Hawaii Five-0 would finally say goodbye.

Farewell, Hawaii Five-0: What it's like to have watched all 240 episodes

"I have a confession to make: I've seen every single episode of Hawaii Five-0. Yes, you read that right, all 240," says Derek Lawrence of the CBS drama, which tonight ends its 10-season run. He adds: "Like you surely are, people are often curious when they hear about my fandom of this CBS procedural reboot, especially considering I'm not exactly in the target demo. My dad is definitely in the target demo, and he absolutely watches. Honestly, Five-0 is one of the shows we've talked about most over the years, becoming a staple of Saturday morning calls (he's been saying all season that this should be the last season, while I would happily watch another 22, or 240, episodes). But there are plenty of reasons other than father-son bonding time that I kept that series recording for 10 seasons. To me, there's nothing more important in a show than characters. The writing can be phenomenal and award-winning, but if you don't want to spend time with these people, then you'll just stop coming back. While Five-0 didn't produce a Michael Scott, a Leslie Knope, or a Don Draper, this was always a group I enjoyed spending 42 minutes with."

Hawaii Five-0's Peter Lenkov discusses wrapping up 10 season and informing the cast of cancelation while shooting the final episode

Lenkov says he informed the cast of the cancelation while filming a pivotal scene in Friday's series finale. "Well, truthfully, I think the show is going to end every year. So every year you have to think about that," he says. "But I felt like the ending that you saw could have worked as a season finale or a series finale...I always thought that the season would end this way, and then when it became a series-ender I went in and retooled some things so it felt like a real, genuine end." Lenkov adds: "There were two things that were essential to whenever the series was going to end that I needed to put in there. One was, what was in the tackle box? And what was in the box was Steve's father, John, actually suspected that his wife was alive and was investigating that. The other was what for years I called my Pearl Harbor scene, which was, what happened in the hours and days before the attack on Pearl Harbor? I always wanted to see what went into the planning of the Hesse extraction in the pilot and seeing Steve McGarrett as a Navy SEAL before any of this ever happened, before his father was murdered. The idea of seeing the planning stages from the pilot was something that I always wanted to write at some point, and I always knew it was going to be a part of the finale."

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• Lenkov admits some Hawaii Five-0 fans probably didn't like the ending: "Look, here’s the thing: I know the characters best, in my opinion," he says. "I know people will say 'Well, I watched the show for 248 hours, I know them. But I write them, so I know them pretty well.
• Lenkov says he's grateful Hawaii Five-0 lasted 10 seasons because reboots rarely succeed: "For me, first of all, and I tell people this all the time, I don’t think I’ll have a better experience than I’ve had on this show in terms of sort of like the casting magic that we had, location, just everything, the support of the community," he says. "I don’t know if I’ll ever have that again. I’m seeing a lot of it sort of repeat itself with Magnum P.I. in Hawaii. Reboots, historically, they don’t last long and I think we got real lucky because I think we really kept well and we’re in probably the best location you can have for a television show. Those two ingredients probably really are the reason that we’re successful. But yeah, even people come to reboots with very skeptical, but I feel like we took the themes and spirit of the original and did something fresh with it. We honored the original and I think people saw that as not just a rehash of something, but an expansion on the brand and for some reason, 240 hours later, people are still fond of it. We’re lucky."

The original idea for Hawaii Five-0's series finale, a CGI Jack Lord, already aired in the Season 7 premiere

Showrunner Peter Lenkov wanted to end the Hawaii Five-0 reboot with the original McGarrett. "When showrunner Peter M. Lenkov first came up with the idea for the unexpected cameo, he pictured it as the series’ very final scene," reports TVLine's Matt Webb Mitovich. "But coming out of Season 6, he realized Five-0 wouldn’t be ending anytime soon, and he wanted to tackle this bit of computer trickery before another show did similar."