By Lacy Baugher for Drama on January 5th, 2016

Get Your First Look at the Final Season of ‘Mr. Selfridge’

Jeremy Piven is going to go one more round as "Mr. Selfridge" (Photo: ITV)
Jeremy Piven is going to go one more round as "Mr. Selfridge" (Photo: ITV)
Jeremy Piven is going to go one more round as "Mr. Selfridge" (Photo: ITV)

The trailer for the fourth and final season of period drama Mr. Selfridge has arrived, and it looks suitably dramatic and foreboding as the show begins to wind down.

Jeremy Piven stars as the colorful and troubled Harry Gordon Selfridge, and the show’s fourth season will focus on the charismatic entrepreneur’s fall, as he loses hold of both his business empire and the social status he worked so hard to achieve.

Season 4 will open in 1928, nine years after the events depicted in the show’s third season. Selfridge is at the pinnacle of his power – a retail giant at the heart of the Roaring Twenties, a time of rapid change and progress. A man-about-town in London and often gambling glamorously abroad, rumors of Harry’s latest fling light up the social circuit at Victor Colleano’s new nightspot, which is bigger and more decadent than ever.

Get your first look at the Season 4 trailer below: 

The best part about this clip is the fact that we now have visual confirmation that Katherine Kelly has returned as Lady Mae, a serious relief since her character was greatly missed during Season 3. (And trust me, I never would have expected I’d say that way back in Season 1.)

Other familiar faces slated to return include Amanda Abbington, Tom Goodman-Hill, Ron Cook, Amy Beth Hayes, Samuel West, Trystan Gravelle and Sascha Park.

A handful of newcomers will also debut, including Sacha Dhawan as Jimmy Dillon, an ambitious entrepreneur, Lottie Tolhurst as Mr. Grove’s eldest daughter Meryl, and Zoe Richards as new Selfridge’s employee Tilly Brockless. Emma Hamilton and Zoe Richards have also been cast as the infamous Dolly sisters, twin dancers , actresses and avid gambling enthusiasts who were major contributors to the downward spiral of Selfridge’s life.

So, there’s a lot to cover in ten episodes, yeah? Season 4 kicks off in the UK on January 8, and will premiere in America on Masterpiece this Spring. (Probably late March, as in previous years.) If you need to jog your memory about everything that’s happened in Mr. Selfridge to date, we’ve got recaps of the whole series on the blog.

What are you hoping for in the show’s final season? 

By Lacy Baugher for Drama on January 5th, 2016
Lacy Baugher

Lacy's love of British TV is embarrassingly extensive, but primarily centers around evangelizing all things Doctor Who, and watching as many period dramas as possible.

Digital media type by day, she also has a fairly useless degree in British medieval literature, and dearly loves to talk about dream poetry, liminality, and the medieval religious vision. (Sadly, that opportunity presents itself very infrequently.) York apologist, Ninth Doctor enthusiast, and unabashed Ravenclaw. Say hi on Threads or Blue Sky at @LacyMB. 

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