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Parties, Parking Headaches and Spats: On the Set of Industry

On Jan. 11, Industry Season 4 premieres on HBO and HBO Max, expanding beyond investment banking into tech, porn, age verification, and politics.
After Season 3's breakout, the collapse of Pierpoint & Co. gave co-creators Konrad Kay and Mickey Down a blank slate to scatter characters and shift focus.
At Tender, executives are fighting over Siren as Tender, a fintech payment processor recently public, debates processing payments while Harper Stern and Yasmin Kara-Hanani align with Whitney Halberstram and Jim Dycker.
The UK's Online Safety Act took effect in July 2025, causing Pornhub's UK traffic to drop by almost 80 percent amid the new age verification rules.
Production expanded to Cardiff and abroad with new sets at Bad Wolf studios and South Africa/Ghana location shoots, while Konrad Kay and Mickey Down direct four episodes amid a multimillion-dollar deal.

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Sydney Morning Herald

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Parties, parking headaches and spats: On the set of Industry

It was one of HBO Max’s least-watched shows, but this hot fintech drama is now a hit. We go behind the scenes for its supercharged fourth season.

3 days ago·Sydney, Australia

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Wired

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‘Industry’ Takes on the Age Verification Wars

In the HBO show’s fourth season, ‘Industry’ proves to be more prescient than it’s ever been.

5 days ago·United States

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'Industry' Season 4 review: HBO's criminally underrated drama thrills in most ambitious season yet

In its Season 3 finale, Industry blew itself up entirely.The episode saw the shutdown of Pierpoint & Co.'s trading floor, eliminating the offices that had been the show's home since Season 1. It was the boldest move yet from a series that's never met a stake it couldn't raise. SEE ALSO: 2026 TV preview: All the TV shows you need to know, and where to stream them So how do Industry co-creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay follow up that explosive …

5 days ago·United States

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Variety

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‘Industry’ Season 4 Is a Wildly Ambitious Reinvention That Cranks the HBO Finance Drama Up to 11: TV Review

The HBO finance drama reinvents itself from the ground up in a wildly ambitious Season 4 that cranks the sex, drugs and betrayal up to 11.

5 days ago·Los Angeles, United States

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Industry Blew Up the Bank—Then Got Right Back to Work

When Industry premiered in 2020, it was one of the least-watched shows in HBO history. But having grown in scale and ambition in subsequent seasons, Industry, in its fourth season, is more self-assured, more stylish, and more powerful than ever before.

5 days ago·New York, United States

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