{"id":16803,"date":"2022-06-11T11:28:16","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T09:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1660707"},"modified":"2022-06-11T12:06:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T10:06:10","slug":"prime-video-renews-the-boys-for-season-4","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/prime-video-renews-the-boys-for-season-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Video renews The Boys for season 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Patrick Cremona\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Saturday, 11 June 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Just a week after it returned for the start of its third season, Prime Video has announced that hit superhero comedy <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/sci-fi\/the-boys-season-3-release-date\/&quot;\">The Boys<\/a> has been renewed for a fourth run on the streamer.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as the show continues to grow in popularity \u2013 with the opening episodes of season three seeing a 17% viewership increase from season two \u2013 and will come as no surprise given it\u2019s now firmly amongst the biggest shows on streaming television.<\/p>\n<p class=\"&quot;xmsonormal&quot;\">Billy Butcher star Karl Urban had already appeared to accidentally give away the renewal earlier this year \u2013 when he told <a href=\"\/\/variety.com\/2022\/tv\/news\/the-boys-season-four-karl-urban-amazon-1235203158\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Variety<\/a> in March that he was shooting the show \u201cthrough the end of the year\u201d, despite the fact production on season three had already wrapped.<\/p> <p class=\"&quot;xmsonormal&quot;\">Speaking about the renewal now it\u2019s been made official, Amazon Studios\u2019 head of global television Vernon Sanders said: \u201cFrom our first conversation with Eric Kripke and the creative team about Season Three of\u00a0The Boys, we knew the show was continuing to get even bolder\u2014an impressive feat considering the wild success of the Emmy-nominated second season.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cThe Boys continues to push boundaries in storytelling while also being relentlessly entertaining and threading the needle on social satire that feels all too real. This stylized world of the series has incredible global reach and the viewership for opening weekend is proof of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"&quot;xmsonormal&quot;\">Meanwhile, showrunner Erik Kripke, explained that the cast and crew were \u201cso grateful\u201d to the fans for \u201cembracing the show and allowing us to make more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"&quot;xmsonormal&quot;\">\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to continue Butcher and the Boys\u2019 fight against Homelander and the Seven, as well as comment on the insane world we\u2019re living in,\u201d he said. \u201cAlso, this is the first time in history that exploding genitalia has led to further success.\u201d<\/p>\n<iframe title=\"&quot;THE\" boys=\"\" season=\"\" official=\"\" trailer=\"\" prime=\"\" video=\"\" width=\"&quot;200&quot;\" height=\"&quot;113&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K-8VYKUZYiw?feature=oembed&quot;\" frameborder=\"&quot;0&quot;\" allow=\"&quot;accelerometer;\" autoplay=\"\" clipboard-write=\"\" encrypted-media=\"\" gyroscope=\"\" picture-in-picture=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/>\n<p class=\"&quot;xmsonormal&quot;\">The renewal is just the latest good news for a franchise that continues to go from strength-to-strength, and fans also have other projects to look forward to in addition to the main series.<\/p>\n<p>An untitled live-action spinoff \u2013 rumoured to be titled Varsity \u2013 is currently in production, set at America\u2019s only college exclusively for young-adult superheroes, while fans were also treated to the eight-episode anthology animated series The Boys Presents: Diabolical earlier in 2022.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Boys season 3 premiered on <a class=\"&quot;body-link&quot;\" href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/video\/detail\/B07V4TMWFR?tag=radtim0b-21&amp;ascsubtag=radiotimes-0&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/video\/detail\/B07V4TMWFR\/ref=atv_dp&quot;\" data-affiliate=\"&quot;true&quot;\" data-geniuslink=\"&quot;https:\/\/buy.geni.us\/Proxy.ashx?TSID=114542&amp;GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2Fgp%2Fvideo%2Fdetail%2FB07V4TMWFR%3Ftag%3Dradtim0b-21%26ascsubtag%3Dradiotimes-1654994&amp;dtb=1&quot;\">Amazon Prime Video<\/a>\u00a0on Friday 3rd June. 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