HBO’s Surprise Sunday Night Wager
“Industry,” a tale of Gen Z bankers and a chaotic tech founder, has become an heir to “Succession” just as HBO and its corporate parent could use a breakthrough hit. Plus, what else to watch this fall.
Konrad Kay and Mickey Down were out at a party near the end of 2023 when they received word from HBO that their show, “Industry,” would move from its home on Monday evenings to the television industry’s premier time slot: 9 p.m. on Sunday, a position HBO had previously given to the likes of “Succession,” “Game of Thrones” and “The Sopranos.”
At that point, they had already finished filming the third season of the London-set show, which centers on a trio of young, attractive bankers striving to find professional success and something resembling personal contentment in the cutthroat world of finance. The career-redefining call that the pair received mid-party seemed like a scene out of “Industry.”
“They’d seen the first couple of episodes of the [season],” Down, 35, recounted earlier this month shortly after the third season’s debut. “They were really impressed with how it leveled up.”