Ultima Lucha Tres aired in October 2017, but it had been filmed 16 months earlier in June 2016. "Lucha Underground" took an unexpected four-and-a-half-month midseason break during the broadcast run of Season 3 -- a decision El Rey Network President
Daniel Tibbets said was "a normal programming cadence." But even with the hiatus, the end of Season 3 came and went without El Rey announcing future seasons, which had fans wondering if Ultima Lucha Tres was the
series finale of "Lucha Underground."
They had to sweat it out, but El Rey finally answered that question when they announced plans for "Lucha Underground's" fourth season in November. The first of Season 4's new episodes -- there will be 22 in all -- will air on June 13.
"When we were doing [Seasons] 2 and 3, we finished two and then we went right into three. Here, we're trying to tell as many stories as possible but in a shorter period of time," head writer and co-executive producer Chris DeJoseph explained about the new approach. "It's obviously a little bit different, but I think sometimes it's good because we put the pedal to the metal and go for it."
DeJoseph and his team spent two months writing Season 4 after over a year of exchanging texts back and forth with storyline ideas. "Lucha Underground" started filming in February, a full year later than originally planned, and completed the tapings in a month. In comparison, the show taped 40 episodes for Season 3 over the course of three months.