"Six Feet Under," HBO's black comedy about family life at a mortuary, ended its award-winning run last year. Now, it will have a new life in syndication.

In a deal worth more than $15 million, Bravo has bought the exclusive cable rights to all five seasons of the show for the next four years. The NBC/Universal-owned network is paying $250,000 per episode for all 63 one-hour episodes.

Bravo will debut the series this fall, most likely in the late 10pm time slot due to its content. HBO is working with the network to edit the episodes to fit regular cable standards, but hopes to do as little editing as possible, to keep the storylines intact.

Strangely enough, Bravo isn't requiring all episodes to be trimmed to fit the regular one hour time slot (allowing for commercials). If an episode happens to run a little long after commercials are added, the network will allow it to bleed into the next timeslot.

"Six Feet Under" is HBO's third series to find a new home on basic cable. The network's hit series "Sex and the City" runs in an edited format on TBS, and last year, A&E bought the exclusive rights to "The Sopranos" for a record $2.5 million an episode.

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