Overview
- HBO announced Tuesday that Season 4 will premiere Sunday, November 1, 2026 at 9 p.m. ET/PT and will stream weekly on HBO Max as an eight-episode season.
- The network released a first teaser that frames the new season around the costs of Bertha Russell’s rise and warns that her family must face the consequences.
- Producers published a full cast list that reunites the core ensemble and adds notable newcomers, including Jim Gaffigan, Dennis Haysbert and James Scully, to expand the show’s storylines.
- Production for the season was filmed in the Albany/Troy Capital Region beginning in June to use local Victorian-era architecture for the 1880s setting and to stage high-profile scenes such as a presidential dinner.
- Creator Julian Fellowes returns as writer and executive producer with Salli Richardson-Whitfield directing and Sonja Warfield writing and executive producing, keeping creative continuity for the series’ shift toward higher stakes.