You served your time waiting for Bridgerton Season 3, which finally hit the small screen last summer in two parts. If you binged as hard as we did, the delicious slow-burn love story between Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) and Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) wasn’t nearly enough. And you’re waiting on more.
Fear not, Gentle Reader. Showrunner Jess Brownell says the next chapter of the story is already in the works and officially has a new teaser. “We are hard at work on Season Four,” she tells Town & Country. “We’ve broken out the whole season and are finalizing the scripts, and I’m super excited about where we’re headed.» Need something to hold you over in the impending interim? Here’s what we know so far about Bridgerton season four.
The teaser for Season 4 is out
Netflix just dropped the official teaser for the upcoming installment. It features a masked Benedict walking through a masquerade ball as women eye him. He stops short before Sophie Baek (Yerin Ha’s character) who is entranced with the chandelier above her. She is interrupted by another gentleman asking her for a dance, suggesting there there might be some tension between two possible love interests. The teaser ends, noting that the series will be released sometime in 2026.
Season 4 began filming in September 2024
While the two-year-plus hiatuses between Bridgerton seasons have been unbearable for fans, Rhimes says the Bridgerton team is considering ways to speed up the show’s production. “They [Netflix] want to write everything, and then they want to shoot everything, which is—it’s very counterintuitive to the way I learned to make television,” She explained to Variety. «We’re really working on the idea of if this is the field we live in, then how do we make the field faster?…we really are thinking about stuff such as permanent sets and lots, and things like that that will really help us speed the process up.”
In February, the production company released a short, behind-the-scenes film on their Instagram page, revealing that filming has been firmly underway.
The Bridgerton sibling in Season 4 will be Benedict
Feverish speculation as to who’s story will follow the Polin lovefest has erupted among fans. Will Benedict Bridgerton (Luke Thompson) finally have his moment in the spotlight? Has John Stirling’s (Victor Alli) appearance been a foreshadowing of Francesca’s love story? Will Eloise (Claudia Jessie) finally start corresponding with Sir Phillip Crane (Chris Fulton)?
The focus will indeed be Benedict, as his book, An Offer from a Gentleman, was skipped. «He’s such a fun character and such a fan favorite that we are really excited to play with him for a little bit more and let him have more fun before he settles down,” Brownell told Entertainment Weekly about Season 3.
Luke Thompson as Benedict Bridgerton in Netflix’s ’Bridgerton’.
There have been talks about the first seven seasons of Bridgerton
In Netflix’s 2025 Upfront presentation, they announced that Bridgerton has been renewed for seasons 5 and 6. Rhymes has hinted that the series could go on for as long as seven seasons. “I do have a very specific plan of where we go each season—which one is which,” Rhimes told Variety in a May 2024 interview. “Because you really have to start seeding in the other siblings, and what’s going on with them, to push them to the next season. We’ve really talked about it through, I think, Season 6 or maybe 7.”
We’re hoping that the series will at least fulfill the eight novels in Julia Quinn’s book series, especially since Rhimes has said that everybody will have a main arc each season. “There’s going to be one for each one of the Bridgertons,” Rhymes told Town & Country. “We laid out the story in a way that felt right and necessary for us. And, eventually, every last one of those Bridgertons is going to have a love story.»
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