'Eastbound & Down' Canceled: Season 4 of HBO's Danny McBride Comedy Will be Its Last, Only 8 More Episodes of Kenny Powers

After three successful seasons of the raunchy baseball comedy "Eastbound & Down," HBO has decided to cancel the show after announcing a final, fourth season. Though season three seemed to bring closure to the series, we have eight more episodes of the foul-mouthed Kenny Powers. Writer and star Danny McBride and the rest of the cast and crew are not displeased with this news, considering they have been hoping to start other projects.

In a statement made last year right before "Eastbound & Down" was renewed for a fourth season, McBride told Entertainment Weekly, "HBO definitely wants us, and [co-creator] Jody Hill and I love writing for the show ... But there is other stuff we'd like to do. Both of us are ready to make jokes concerning people who don't have strange haircuts."

When the fourth season was announced, it came as a surprise. The finale of season three appeared to be the last episode as the story came to a conclusive end: Kenny Powers reached the majors one last time, but decided to walk away from the sport, fake his own death and return home to his longtime love April to become a family man.

Here is HBO's statement that announced the final season of "Eastbound & Down":

"EASTBOUND & DOWN, the raucous HBO comedy series from creators Danny McBride and Jody Hill, begins shooting its eight-episode fourth and final season tomorrow in North Carolina, with the season scheduled to launch SUNDAY, SEPT. 29 (10:00-10:30 p.m. ET/PT). McBride stars in the show as the irrepressible Kenny Powers, the former major league pitcher who is larger than life... and death.

"In the third season of EASTBOUND & DOWN, which concluded in April 2012, Kenny Powers finally made it back to the majors and recaptured his former glory, only to fake his own death and run back home to his beloved April, the mother of his child. The upcoming fourth season picks up the action several years later and finds Kenny living the American Dream with his family in North Carolina."