“Euphoria” Season 3 has been pushed to 2025, according to HBO

Season 3 of ‘Euphoria’ will now ideally be released in 2025, according to HBO Drama Chief..

Euphoria season three has been delayed.

According to Deadline, the new season of the HBO drama has been pushed back due to the ongoing writers’ strike and series creator Sam Levinson’s work on The Idol. The next instalment of Euphoria is now likely to air in 2025 at the earliest.

Season two of the show also faced delays, then due to the pandemic, and eventually aired in January 2022 — nearly three years after the show debuted in June 2019. With the news of the delay, this means there will now be at least a three-year wait until the next lot of episodes air.

“Euphoria is one of those [shows] that we had begun writing in tandem with post-production on Idol, but at this point, we don’t have countless scripts,” HBO head of drama Francesca Orsi explained to Deadline.

Euphoria joins the list of productions, which includes Stranger Things and The Last of Us, that have been put on hold as the Writers Guild of America (WGA) continues their strike.

The union is calling for better residual payments for show writers following the rise of streaming services.

“The companies have used the transition to streaming to cut writer pay and separate writing from production, worsening working conditions for series writers at all levels,” the WGA outlined in a statement at the beginning of their strike (via Deadline).

Although the cabler’s Game of Thrones spinoff House of the Dragon continues to shoot Season 2 in hopes of premiering in the summer of 2024, George R.R. Martin has said that his other prequel, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight, has shut down its writers room. Work on new seasons of The Last of Us and The White Lotus has also ground to a halt. “We were looking at The Last Of Us for some time in 2025,” Orsi said. “And The White Lotus was ideally looking to go in 2024, but there’s some question about timing of the strike…

“I’m hopeful that we can come to terms sooner than later,” she added. “Otherwise, we will have to assess what is the end of the ’24 schedule, what are the shows that are going to be delivered for 2025. At this point, those shows that I’m looking to air wouldn’t necessarily be ready if this strike [were to] last six to nine months. So yes, that’s a big question for us, but I think we’ll cross that road once we come to it.”