Entourage Season 5

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Production begins on Season 5 in April 2008[2] with 12 episodes to be initially produced. However, Producer Ellin said that if HBO decides to order more at the last minute, then they are up for it.[3] Season 5 planned to satirize the writers' strike but has been scrapped as Ellin feels that most people are over the whole debacle and would prefer to deal with different material. Due to the writer's strike, Season 5 will premier in September 2008 instead of June.[3]
Among the story lines for Season 5 will be the return of Domenick Lombardozzi, the actor who plays Dom.[3] Ellin wrote him in intending for Dom to be a permanent fixture of the entourage.[3] Unfortunately, he didn’t anticipate the audience’s negative reaction to the character, which ultimately led to Lombardozzi’s early exit.[3] Ellin has a personal goal to bring Dom back, but this time he’ll have a storyline we can empathize with. Giving him terminal cancer is one idea they're considering.[3] Ellin says he has four more seasons of scandalous behavior in reserve, insisting that Entourage will probably run through year eight.[3]