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Industry season 5: Release date speculation and latest news
The future of the HBO/BBC series has been confirmed.
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- Morgan Cormack
Published: Friday, 7 August 2026 at 1:30 pm
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*Warning: This article contains full spoilers for Industry season 4.*
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Filming for the fifth and final season of Industry is now under way – and confirms that one series star will, in fact, be returning.
In the behind-the-scenes pictures of the table read for the fifth season, which were posted on the show's official Instagram account, Kit Harington can be seen alongside Marisa Abela, Myha'la and Girls alum Zosia Mamet, who has been confirmed to join as a new character.
Although some fans may have thought that Henry Muck's journey may have been over, it looks as though he will return to the fore after all.
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Harington did previously seem to hint at such at Deadline’s Contenders TV panel, saying: "All I’ll say is this show has pushed it and pushed it and pushed it each season, and I just know for certain that we’ll push it again."
And with multiple twists and storyline whiplash to be had in Industry season 4, there's no telling what will unfold in the show's fifth and final outing.
But when can we expect season 5 to land on our screens? And more importantly, in what newfound direction will we be going in? Read on for everything we know so far.
Will there be an Industry season 5?
Marisa Abela and Kiernan Shipka in Industry season 4. Simon Ridgway/HBO
Yes! The news of the show's fifth season was announced ahead of the season 4 finale on Wednesday 25 February.
In their joint statement on the renewal announcement, Industry co-creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay said: "We’re privileged to have joined the small, esteemed club of dramas that have run for five seasons on HBO. This March marks a decade since we first began to conceive of the world of Industry and it exists because of the unwavering faith and vision of our partners and former partners at HBO — Casey, Frannie, Kara, Cela, Sam, Kathleen, and Max.
"Without Jane Tranter’s imagination and belief, the show would simply be a dead idea in a drawer somewhere. She — alongside her partners at Bad Wolf — has been our guiding light and fiercest champion. We’d also like to thank the BBC for their partnership."
They added: "Finally: we owe everything to our crew and the best cast on TV for making our writing live. The characters will live on because of their world-class performances. Seeing the HBO ident in front of our work will never stop being a thrill. It remains the best place to make television, and we look forward to continuing our collaboration well into the future."
Speaking about the final season, co-creator Konrad Kay told Deadline: "Season 5 is just great, because we know what the end is. We know the final images of all the characters. We had a 12-week room over the course of the new year, just now. So we know what we’re writing towards."
Industry season 5 release date speculation
There's been no confirmed release date for Industry season 5 yet. However, seeing as there's usually been a two-year gap between seasons, we could hazard a guess and assume that Industry season 5 would be landing on our screens sometime in 2028.
However, with the fact that production on season 5 has now kicked off, that points to the fact that we could be anticipating the final season to land in 2027. After all, season 4 started filming in early 2025 and premiered in early 2026. So, we could be looking at a similar timeline.
Who could return for Industry season 5?
Myha’la and Toheeb Jimoh in Industry season 4. Simon Ridgway/HBO
It's the burning question for many fans – who will be coming back for season 5? But with the confirmation that season 5 production is now underway, we too have a few faces that have been confirmed as returning.
In the photos posted to the show's official Instagram of the table read, we can see that the show's leading ladies, Harper Stern (Myha'la) and Yasmin Kara-Hanani (Marisa Abela), are both returning for more. In a bit of a surprise to some fans, Kit Harington looks to be returning as Sir Henry Muck even though things seemed to wrap up on a somewhat final note for the character after he was seen on house arrest at his palatial estate at the end of season 4.
New series star Zosia Mamet of Girls fame has also joined the fold for season 5 as new character Carmen Dame, a fitness influencer turned wellness tech founder and CEO. Sweetpea (Miriam Petche) will also be returning.
For now, the cast confirmed to star in Industry season 5 are as follows.
- Myha'la as Harper Stern
- Marisa Abela as Yasmin Kara-Hanani
- Kit Harington as Sir Henry Muck
- Miriam Petche as Sweetpea Golightly
- Zosia Mamet as Carmen Dame
As for the rest of the cast, in the season 4 finale, we saw Harper at a career high and looking into office space for her company, which could signal the dawn of a new batch of characters working for her.
The closing moments of the episode also saw Kwabena (Toheeb Jimoh) by Harper's side, so we would assume he'd be making a return.
As for characters we won't be seeing anymore of, we can assume that Rishi (Sagar Radia) won't be making any more appearances. Although he is a cat with nine lives, we can't imagine Industry will be taking us into prison to pay him a visit – but wilder things have happened.
We can also imagine that we won't be seeing Whitney (Max Minghella) after his apparent demise, with the same being said of Ken Leung's Eric Tao and Charlie Heaton's Jim Dycker.
Yasmin also seemed to grow quite close to Henry's uncle, Alexander, Viscount Norton (Andrew Havill), and seeing as Harington is returning, it could be likely that Henry's uncle also makes an appearance.
Yasmin's own career has taken a major turn, and so, with Hayley (Kiernan Shipka) seemingly being her right-hand woman, we may be seeing more of the American actress. The same could be said of Reform MP Sebastian Stefanowicz, who is played by Edward Holcroft, and whom Yasmin was keen to impress by the end of season 4.
Seeing as the new path she's embarked on will see her meet plenty of undesirable, powerful characters, we can probably look forward to plenty of new faces joining the Industry cast, we're sure.
What could Industry season 5 be about?
Marisa Abela in Industry season 4. :BBC/Bad Wolf Productions/HBO/Simon Ridgway
With Harper on a career-high helming her own company and Yasmin seemingly having turned to human trafficking, blackmail, and escorting services, it really is all to play for in regard to what direction season 5 takes.
Season 4 already took us on an unexpected turn away from the world of finance, and it was welcomed by many fans, but could season 5 see a return to classic form and get us back on the trading floor?
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Speaking to Deadline, co-creator Konrad Kay said: "Season 5 is going to be just as ambitious and, hopefully, just as engaging, but I think it’s going to be led, really, by the characters, because we know that we’re going to ride towards an ending."
Will it mean that we see Harper and her team continue to try to hunt down fraudulent companies? Something tells us Harper's not all that concerned with turning into a whistleblower, but with her name increasingly more out there due to her Tender success, how will it all manifest? Hopefully, she doesn't take the power-hungry route of her mentor Eric, but we'll just have to wait and see.
But where will Yasmin and Harper's relationship go next after the former's actions?
Co-creator Mickey Down told Deadline: "Ask the question: Is it salvageable, given what happened? There needs to be some kind of relationship. I will say that."
Also chatting to The Wrap about Yasmin and Harper's relationship being central to the season 5 plot, Down said: "Season 5 will really be about trying to navigate a relationship through what we saw them do at the end of season 4, which was kind of existential. How do they have any kind of relationship after that is the question of season 5.
"That relationship can be distant, it can be close, it can be personal, it can be proximity, it can be whatever, but it’s still going to be about their relationship because it always is."
As for what that means for Yasmin, Abela also told The Hollywood Reporter: "I have to admit, I do know where it goes next season, so this is a hard line to toe. We know that wherever Yasmin ends up at the end of season five will be her final resting place, and of course I would want it to be on the mountaintop somewhere.
"But I also know the show and I don’t know whether that’s possible. I think about Don Draper and how much better it was that he didn’t actually end on top; there was a coda that made it a little spicier."
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Morgan CormackDrama Writer
Morgan Cormack is a Drama Writer for Radio Times, covering everything drama-related on TV and streaming. She previously worked at Stylist as an Entertainment Writer. Alongside her past work in content marketing and as a freelancer, she possesses a BA in English Literature.
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