The third season of Euphoria will start production in January, including a complete permanent cast

The chances that the third season of Euphoria will be shown next year have increased after HBO revealed that the youth drama will go into production in January.

In March, it was reported that shooting plans for the Sam Levinson-created series had been postponed as Levinson was still working on scripts.

Filming will now begin early next year with all the main cast returning. Also expect a time jump between the second and third seasons.



At the time of the announcement in March, cast members were allowed to take on other acting jobs, such as Eric Dane joining Jensen Ackles and Jessica Camacho in Prime Video's thriller series Countdown.

HBO is aware of this development and will therefore film around the schedules of certain actors. It's not clear if the third season will be the last, but it's hard to imagine HBO finding time in the actors' schedules for future seasons as the series has created a number of stars, including breakouts for Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney , Jacob Elordi and Colman Domingo, who has a recurring role.

Dane, Maude Apatow, Storm Reid, Alexa Demie, Hunter Schafer, Nika King and Dominic Fike also star in the series.

Francesca Orsi, EVP of HBO programming and head of HBO drama series and films, said, “I am thrilled that we are ready to begin production on Euphoria in January. We could not be happier with our creative partnership with Sam and this incredible cast. We look forward to bringing this new season of Euphoria to life for the fans.”

The first season premiered in June 2019 and the second season in January 2022, with two one-hour specials in December 2020 and January 2021.

The series was hit by writers and actors' strikes in 2023, as well as the unexpected deaths of lead actor Angus Cloud and executive producer Kevin Turen.

Since the first two seasons are mainly set in high school, you can expect them to have grown up a bit.

In an August interview with Elle, Levinson described Season 3 as a “film noir” and teased that Zendaya‘s character of a recovering addict would “explore what it means to be an individual with principles in a corrupt world”.

Euphoria is set in the fictional town of East Highland, California, where people search for hope while balancing the tensions of love, loss and addiction. The series is based on the Israeli series of the same name by Ron Leshem and Daphna Levin.

Levinson produces with Ravi Nandan, Drake, Adel 'Future' Nur, Zendaya, Will Greenfield, Ashley Levinson, Ron Leshem, Daphna Levin, Hadas Mozes Lichtenstein, Gary Lennon, Mirit Toovi, Tmira Yardeni, Yoram Mokady. The series is produced in collaboration with A24.