Last Man Standing is an American sitcom created by Jack Burditt for ABC later airing on Fox that ran from October 11 2011 to May 20 2021. The show starred Tim Allen as an executive at a sporting goods store chain headquartered in Denver Colorado who is a married father of three daughters and a grandfather to his eldest daughter s son. Last Man Standing was a joint production by 21 Laps-Adelstein Productions NestEgg Productions and 20th Television. The series follows Mike Baxter a senior executive and director of marketing for an outdoor sporting goods store chain based in Denver Colorado. His home life is initially filled with his wife three daughters and a grandson but later extends to the young men who are married to or dating his daughters. The series originally ran on ABC from 2011 to 2017 for six seasons and entered syndication in 2015. Despite being ABC s second-highest rated sitcom for the 2016-17 season the network declined to renew Last Man Standing for a seventh season. Some media publications reported that ABC canceled the program for being too conservative. One year later Fox announced it had picked up the show for a seventh season which premiered on September 28 2018. In May 2020 Fox renewed the series for a ninth and final season which premiered on January 3 2021. The series concluded after 194 episodes on May 20 2021.