‘Industry’ Returns With High-Stakes: Season 4 Sets January Premiere and Drops a Teaser Full of Fresh Blood

HBO is kicking off the new year with the kind of messy, money-soaked drama that only Industry can deliver. The network has officially set January 11 as the Season 4 premiere date, and yesbecause HBO knows how to treat its Sunday night royalty the series is heading straight back into its coveted primetime slot at 9 p.m. ET/PT, with episodes streaming on HBO Max. Even better? A first-look teaser has arrived to remind fans that trading floors and bedrooms are equally dangerous battlegrounds in the Pierpoint universe.

Set to Nina Simone’s haunting “Lilac Wine,” the teaser wastes no time hinting at the escalating tension that’s about to erupt on every floor of Pierpoint & Co. Harper and Yasmin may be technically up-and-comers no more, but don’t let the promotions fool you, power still has a price, and someone always pays it with interest. Season 4 promises globetrotting, high-stakes schemes thanks to a flashy new fintech disruptor elbowing its way into the industry and into the lives of our ambitious leads.

And let’s talk about the new faces, because HBO clearly raided a casting candy store. Max Minghella, Kal Penn, Charlie Heaton, Kiernan Shipka, Toheeb Jimoh, Amy James-Kelly, Jack Farthing, Stephen Campbell Moore, Claire Forlani, and Edward Holcroft are all joining the party. Minghella’s enigmatic executive Whitney Halberstram already looks like trouble for Harper, while Yasmin’s entanglement with tech founder Sir Henry Muck (Kit Harington) seems primed to combust in that beautifully toxic way only this show can pull off.

Returning cast members including Ken Leung, Sagar Radia, Roger Barclay, Miriam Petche, and Andrew Havill anchor the continuity, though fans should brace themselves: Harry Lawtey will not be returning as Rob, despite ending last season mid-crisis and mid–Silicon Valley reinvention.

With Season 3’s explosive cliffhangers still smoldering loan sharks, shattered marriages, messy proposals, and career gambits it’s clear Season 4 isn’t easing anyone into anything. Instead, Industry looks ready to double down on ambition, betrayal, and the kind of sharp-elbowed maneuvering that makes it one of TV’s most addictive workplace dramas.

If the teaser’s any indication, Pierpoint’s corridors are about to get bloodier figuratively, we hope than a bonus season at a hedge fund. Buckle up, cave dwellers. The trading floor is open again, and Season 4 is dealing in chaos, capital, and characters who play to win no matter the collateral damage.