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on Google Preferred Source Google News Link copied to clipboard By Michael McWhertor Published Aug 8, 2026, 6:19 PM EDT News The final season of The Witcher was expected to premiere in 2026
The Witcher season 4 rewrites the books to give Yennefer a bigger plotline Don't ask The Witcher's creator about The Witcher 4 The Fourth Wing graphic novel goes on preorder on Amazon The Witcher season 5 has been quietly delayed The Witcher Sign in to your Polygon.com account The final season of Netflix's The Witcher has been quietly delayed. While the show was previously expected to arrive in 2026, based on Netflix's marketing materials and the show's shooting schedule, The Witcher season 5 is now slated for a 2027 release, according to a report from What's On Netflix .
The fifth and final season of The Witcher wrapped filming back in September 2025, according to Redanian Intelligence . That was shortly before the fourth season of the show was released on Netflix in October 2025. Generally, new seasons of The Witcher have dropped every other year, making season 5's planned arrival on Netflix an anomaly.
Seasons 4 and 5 were produced and filmed back-to-back, according to a report from Screen Rant . Showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich said last year that the show's writers treated "season 4 and 5 as one large story."
"We knew we had to break it up in terms of how it would be launched on Netflix, but truly it’s the story of this family journey back together, and I think when we’re choosing specifically what details to include from the books, we look for a really sort of diverse sort of swath of things," Hissrich said, adding, "And at the end of the day, it has to be 16 narrative episodes that feel cohesive."
Season 4 of The Witcher represented a low point for the live-action fantasy series, which received some of its worst critical reviews ever . Some viewers also turned on the show after protagonist Geralt was recast.
The Witcher debuted on Netflix in 2019, with Henry Cavill in the lead role of Geralt of Rivia. The show also stars Anya Chalotra as Yennefer of Vengerberg, Freya Allan as Ciri, Eamon Farren as Cahir Mawr Dyffryn aep Ceallach (aka Black Knight), and Joey Batey as Jaskier. Cavill stepped away from the series in 2022 , with Liam Hemsworth ( The Hunger Games , Independence Day: Resurgence ) replacing him. Cavill is now busying himself with bringing the Warhammer 40,000 franchise to Prime Video .
The Witcher fans will have something else to look forward to in the coming years: CD Projekt Red's The Witcher 4 , which stars Ciri as its primary protagonist and is planned to kick off a new trilogy of games.
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