High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Last Resort is an American military drama television series created by Shawn Ryan and Karl Gajdusek for ABC and produced by Sony Pictures Television. It debuted on Thursday at 8:00 pm Eastern/7:00 pm Central on September 27, 2012. On November 16, 2012, ABC announced that the series would not be picked up for a full season and it is their intention that it will finish its current thirteen-episode run.