Netflix’s Bridgerton season four is set to make its debut early next year and the showrunner, Jess Brownell (Bridgerton, Inventing Anna), teases some conflict that will occur in the upcoming season. According to Deadline, Brownell comments that this season has been the easiest book to adapt.
For those who do not know, Bridgerton is a romance series following the matchmaking and scandalous lives of the Bridgerton Family in London. Deadline mentions that this next installment will have the audience see one of Julia Quinn’s (Bridgerton, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story) works be adapted for the series. The novel titled An Offer From a Gentlemen, will show a romance between a bohemian named Benedict and a level-headed maid named Sophie. The arc will follow a reimagined Cinderella story. Brownell also mentions that the show will explore the class dynamic between Benedict as a high stationed Bridgerton and Sophie’s livelihood as a maid.
On Deadline, Browell states this about the characters Benedict and Sophie, “‘we talked a lot about going downstairs and how that would affect the overall tone of the show and I think, actually, it seamlessly blends into the themes that we were trying to explore this season,’ she explained. ‘Benedict very much lives in a fantasy world. Sophie very much lives in a harsher reality. The idea is that, for each of them, neither of those stations are where they need to live in order to find true love.”
The cast consists of Luke Thompson (A Little Life, Transatlantic), Claudia Jessie (Toxic Town, Ed Sheeran: Under the Tree), Nicola Coughlan (Seize Them!, Dodger), Ruth Gemmell (Cleaner, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story), Florence Hunt (Mix Tape, Cursed), Polly Walker (Bookish, Dune: Prophecy), Adjoa Andoh (Portrait Artist of the Year), Will Tilston (Goodbye Christopher Robin, Bridgerton), Julie Andrews (Minions: The Rise of Gru, The King’s Daughter), Luke Newton (The Shape of Things, Youth in Bed).
Along with, Golda Rosheuvel (Grow, Eye for an Eye), Hugh Sachs (Amadeus, Andor), Lorraine Ashbourne (Riot Women, Hitpig), Jonathan Bailey (Wicked: For Good, Jurassic World: Rebirth), Martins Imhangbe (The Soldier’s Tale, Foresight), Emma Naomi (Too Much, Professot T), Geraldine Alexander (Oslo, The One), Simone Ashley (F1: The Movie, Picture This), Hannah Dodd (Blitz, The Jetty), Katie Leung (Arcane, Nightsleeper), Yerin Ha (The Survivors, Dune: Prophecy), and Michelle Mao (A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, Preparation for the Next Life).
According to Deadline, the series is set to premiere on January 29, 2026 with the initial four episodes, with the latter four episodes drop on February 26, 2026.