Industry to have one more go at financial malfeasance in season 5

“We’re privileged to have joined the small, esteemed club of dramas that have run for five seasons on HBO,” say creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay. “For some time now we have been thinking about how best to end the show on an unparalleled high. Unlike some of our characters, we know when to leave a party,” the statement continues, though the duo didn’t offer any concrete direction for where next season might go. Add Jane Tranter of Bad Wolf Productions, “When we first pitched the idea for Industry to HBO, Casey and I believed this might be ‘the little engine that could.’ Over 10 years later, Industry has more than proven this to be true.” 

That much is certainly true; the first season of Industry was among HBO’s lowest rated shows. The New Yorker reported in December that part of the reason it was renewed after the first season was because it was cheap to produce compared to Succession and The White Lotus. Though it still doesn’t pull in anything like Game Of Thrones numbers, viewership is up about 30% this season compared to last. Talk about a return on investment!