Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D visual effects supervisor Mark Kolpack’ tweet (now pulled) confirms that when the ABC series comes back for its fifth season We also have learned it will be getting a full twenty-two episode order.
The series won’t return until January and is expected to take over the Friday 9PM time slot after Marvel’s Inhumans ends its Fall 2017 eight-episode run during the months of October & November.