During the show's PaleyFest panel in March, Murphy hinted that he's been working on two ideas for the next season, but he thinks he knows which is the winner. "Both things that we're writing right now — we haven't yet declared the winner — will have a different form than we've ever done, so we're excited about that," he said. "We'll talk about it soon, but we haven't landed on it."
Whichever one Murphy goes with, he knows it will involve "elements of children," as he said at PaleyFest.
He also teased more possible crossovers between seasons: "The deeper that we go into the series — hopefully we'll last decades and decades — you will see that there's a definite universe and all the worlds are collided, sometimes in a very bizarre, interesting way. You will be seeing more and more of that as we go along."