Country of origin United States Original network FX | No. of episodes 10 | |
Original release March 31 (2016-03-31) – June 2, 2016 (2016-06-02) | ||
The seventh season of the animated television series, Archer, premiered on FX on March 31, 2016. It was originally planned to consist of 13 episodes, however it was later changed to 10.
Production
The show's seventh season changes its setting from New York City to Los Angeles and follows the main characters as they run a private detective agency in Hollywood.
While developing the season, the creative team took inspiration from Magnum, P.I. when writing the stories and they also used the series' location switch to change the series from the 1960s-aesthetic of prior seasons forward to 1970's-style, which included new clothing for the main characters.
The seventh season also marked the first time the show had a composer, J. G. Thirlwell, scoring the soundtrack for the season, a notable difference from previous seasons, in which only the opening and ending music themes were made by composers (Scott Sims and Mel Young, respectively), and the episodes used stock library music.
On February 1, 2016, a trailer for the show's seventh season was released. The trailer was a shot-for-shot remake of the opening scene of Magnum, P.I. Later that month, pictures of female Archer characters appeared in both the online and print versions of the 2016 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. On March 11, 2016, a new trailer for the show—a PSA in which Sterling and Lana instruct the audience at a movie theater to turn off their cell phones—began airing.