Kit Connor as Nick & Joe Locke as Charlie in Heartstopper season 3. (Samuel Dore/Netflix)

Heartstopper Season 4? Everything We Know So Far

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Will our favourite boy-meets-boy return for one more season?

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Heartstopper Season 4? Everything We Know So Far

Kit Connor as Nick & Joe Locke as Charlie in Heartstopper season 3. (Samuel Dore/Netflix)

Raced through all eight episodes of season 3 already? Us too. One question remains: will there be a Heartstopper season 4? And when will we get to see it? We’ve got all the details.

Joe Locke as Charlie & Kit Connor as Nick in Heartstopper season 3. (Samuel Dore/Netflix)

Will There Be A Heartstopper Season 4?

No official news just yet from Netflix, but we think Heartstopper is very likely to be renewed for season 4. The British series has become a global phenomenon for the streaming platform, shining a golden beam on its ensemble cast of characters. After the first season’s immediate success, the show received a rare double renewal, meaning season 3, which just dropped yesterday (3 September), has been on the cards since 2022.

What Will Happen?

Season 3 ends on an, ahem, high note – and that was totally purposeful. ‘It’s such a nice, emotional end to the season,’ Joe Locke tells Netflix. ‘I’m really glad that it ended up that way.’ In Alice Oseman’s graphic novels, however, Volume 4 – which season 3 is based on – ends on more of an uncertain note: Nick has a decision to make about university, and the threat of a long distance relationship hangs in the air. This will all be explored in season 4 but, because Heartstopper Volume 6 hasn’t actually been released yet, we don’t have much more to go off. We’re sure it will all be wrapped up neatly and lovingly.

Joe Locke as Charlie & Toby Donovan as Isaac in Heartstopper season 3. (Samuel Dore/Netflix)

Will Heartstopper Season 4 Be The Last?

It’s very likely that the next instalment of Heartstopper will be the fourth and final season – but that doesn’t necessarily mean we will be saying goodbye to the so-called Osemanverse. Back in 2022, graphic novel author and illustrator and series writer Oseman told Radio Times: ‘It would probably be four seasons to cover the full story. I haven’t done any in-detail planning or anything, but it’s quite easy to divide up the books into seasons, so four I think would do it.’ With season 3 based on Volume 4 of the graphic novels but beginning to enter the territory of Volume 5 as well as Tori’s novel, Solitaire (2014), we think season 4 will finish Volume 5, cover the events of the yet-to-be-released Volume 6, and perhaps add a dash of the novella where it all started, Nick and Charlie (2015).

However, this does not necessarily mean it’s the end of our time at Truham or in the Osemanverse. Oseman has three more novels set in the same universe but exploring characters away from Nick and Charlie’s lives: Radio Silence (2016), I Was Born For This (2018) and Loveless (2020). If Netflix wants to keep the success of Heartstopper going, we could well see screen adaptations of these works, too. All remains to be seen.

Yasmin Finney as Elle & Will Gao as Tao in Heartstopper season 3. (Samuel Dore/Netflix)

The Cast

It will be a last hurrah for the core Heartstopper cast. We expect the following stars to return:

Kit Connor as Nick Nelson
Joe Locke as Charlie Spring
Yasmin Finney as Elle Argent
William Gao as Tao Xu
Corinna Brown as Tara Jones
Kizzy Edgell as Darcy Olsson
Tobie Donovan as Isaac Henderson
Jenny Walser as Tori Spring
Darragh Hand as Michael Holden
Rhea Norwood as Imogen Heaney

Jenny Walser as Tori in Heartstopper season 3. (Samuel Dore/Netflix)

How Many Heartstopper Books Are There?

If you simply can’t wait for Heartstopper season 4, it’s time to turn to the written word. In total, there are six volumes of Heartstopper, a graphic novel written and illustrated by Alice Oseman. But that’s not all: Oseman has been working in this universe since her debut novel, Solitaire, was published back in 2014. That book centres on Tori Spring, Charlie’s older sister, and her relationship with Michael, which we see glimpses of in Heartstopper season 3. But Oseman found herself evermore drawn deeper into the side plot: Charlie and Nick’s relationship, publishing a novella titled Nick and Charlie in 2015. But, as we well know, it didn’t end there.

While the sixth (and final) volume of Heartstopper still hasn’t hit the shelves, Oseman has been working on other books in the same universe in the meantime: one exploring ‘study machine’ Frances at Truham, one following a fangirl called Angel, and one following a girl called Georgia as she heads off to university.

With novellas sprinkled in between, that brings us to a total of 11 books in the Oseman verse. They are, in timeline order: