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The L Word season 5

season of television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ13582390 ↗
Source-derived summary

The fifth season of The L Word began airing on January 6, 2008 and ended on March 23, 2008. 12 episodes were produced.

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Showtime picked up a fifth season of The L Word for 12 episodes, touting the show as "a signature franchise among our viewers". Production began in Vancouver the summer of 2007 and ended in Los Angeles early November 2007.

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Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008, 2007—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Word, season and television providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “The L Word season 5” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.