BBC announces release date for new series of iconic show as Game of Thrones star joins

Kit Harrington learns the truth about his grandfather

The BBC has finally announced the return of the hit series Industry, and fans won't have to wait long. The third season of the popular show will kick off on BBC One on Tuesday, 1 October, with all eight episodes dropping on BBC iPlayer at 6am.

Industry, a Bad Wolf production for the BBC and HBO, was created and penned by Mickey Down and Konrad Kay. The show made its debut in 2020, followed by a second series in 2022.

It chronicles the lives of young bankers striving to carve out their identities in the high-stakes world of international bank Pierpoint and Co's London office.

The third instalment welcomes back many familiar faces along with some fresh ones. Marisa Abela, Harry Lawtey, Ken Leung, Conor MacNeill, Adam Levy, Sarah Parish, Trevor White, Elena Saurel and Irfan Shamji are all set to reprise their roles in the third season.

New additions to the cast include Kit Harington as Henry Muck, Sarah Goldberg as Petra Koenig, Miriam Petche as Sweetpea Golightly, Andrew Havill as Lord Norton, Roger Barclay as Otto Mostyn, Fady Elsayed as Ali El Mansour, and Fiona Button as Denise Oldroyd, reports the Mirror.

Series three of Industry has been announced (Image: BBC)

Kit, aged 37, is set to portray Henry, the CEO and founder of Lumi, a green tech company on the brink of going public. As Pierpoint sets its sights on the future and ventures into ethical investing, the team finds themselves at the heart of Lumi's IPO, a storyline that reaches the upper echelons of finance, media and government.

Industry's writer and consulting producer, Joseph Charlton, has dished out tantalising hints about the upcoming third season, promising it will spread its wings further and offer up a feast of fresh drama. In a chat with Digital Spy, he revealed: "The world is bigger in a way that I think... audiences will find surprising.

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"The show isn't just repeating itself. It's going into new places, and I think it's seeing the entanglement of finance and sectors in other parts of the world and politics in a way that I think is really novel and interesting."

"We're kind of expanding out, and the frame's getting wider, and you're starting to see the bosses above those people, and then those bosses' bosses, and then how a big investment bank fits into the hierarchy of society more broadly than that," Charlton said, hinting at the ambitious scope of the new series.

BBC announces release date for new series of iconic show as Game of Thrones star joins

BBC announces release date for new series of iconic show as Game of Thrones star joins

BBC announces release date for new series of iconic show as Game of Thrones star joins

BBC announces release date for new series of iconic show as Game of Thrones star joins

BBC announces release date for new series of iconic show as Game of Thrones star joins