The Strain to end after season four

FX's vampire drama will return to Toronto to film its final season.

copied from media in canada - thestrainToronto-shot The Strain will end after its fourth season.

The FX series will return to Toronto to film its final season, Playback has confirmed. Season three of the vampire drama shot at Cinespace Film Studios’ Booth Avenue location and is currently airing on the U.S. network.

Season four will return to Cinespace’s Booth Avenue location to shoot directly after series co-creator Guillermo del Toro wraps filming The Shape of Water at the studio at the end of October, Cinespace confirmed. It is slated to air on FX in the summer of 2017.

The end of the series was announced Sept. 27  by Nick Grad and Eric Schrier, presidents of original programming at FX Networks and FX Productions.

The Strain stars Corey Stoll (House of Cards) as a doctor charged with investigating a viral outbreak that turns those affected into vampires. The series also stars Canadians Kevin Durand (Vikings) and Natalie Brown (Bitten), as well as David Bradley (Game of Thrones), Jonathan Hyde (MI-5), Richard Sammel (Inglorious Basterds) and Miguel Gomez (Southpaw).

The series is based on the The Strain Trilogy written by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan. Hogan and del Toro serve as co-creators, executive producers and writers alongside showrunner, executive producer, director and writer Carlton Cuse. Gary Ungar, J. Miles Dale, Bradley Thompson and David Weddle also serve as executive producers. The Strain is produced by FX Productions.