If you’ve spent the past few months wondering where on earth Mike White’s sun-soaked satire will take us next, we now seem to have an answer: France. Here’s absolutely everything we know so far about The White Lotus’s upcoming fourth season.

Is The White Lotus Season 4 definitely happening?

Yes! Back in November 2024, HBO CEO Casey Bloys revealed that when he was in Thailand during the production of the show’s third season, White pitched him his concept for a fourth installment. Bloys’s response, per Deadline? “If White wants to do a fourth season, HBO will do a fourth season.” The official renewal announcement came just over two months later.

Where will The White Lotus Season 4 be set?

This, perhaps more than anything else, was the biggest question. After Maui, Sicily, and Koh Samui, would the fourth season take us to yet another ridiculously luxurious Four Seasons resort? And would we be transported to a new continent once again?

On February 12, Francesca Orsi, the HBO executive who oversees the network’s drama slate, told Deadline of Season 4: “We’re going on some locations scouting in the next couple of weeks, so we’ll know soon. I can’t really say where we’re going to land but chances are somewhere in Europe.” She then hedged her answer by adding that a return to Europe was “likely,” but that there were “some countries on the map that we talked about, but nothing to report on until they actually go locations scouting.”

Then, on September 4, Deadline reported that the production had settled on France as next season’s location, which has three lavish Four Seasons properties: the gilded, Eiffel Tower-overlooking Four Seasons Hotel George V in Paris; the cozy, snow-covered Four Seasons Hotel Megève; and the Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat on the French Riviera.

An urban location would be highly unusual as the main setting of the show, and a mountainous one may be unlikely (Mike White apparently doesn’t like the cold), so the Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat feels like our best bet for now. Sources have, however, stressed that no hotel has yet been locked in, and that the show tends to use multiple resorts in a single season. Watch this space.

Who will be in the cast of The White Lotus Season 4?

New cast members have not yet been revealed, of course—and it seems a safe bet that White will draw in a starry, largely new ensemble, as he has done every other time—but there are also a few major players who could return. These include two key survivors (spoiler alert): Jon Gries’s Greg, who we last saw sipping a drink in his mansion following the bloodshed of the Season 3 finale, and Natasha Rothwell’s newly rich Belinda, who may or may not now be opening her own spa (and her hot son, Zion, as played by Nicholas Duvernay, too). I, for one, would love to see where they wind up.

Who will be behind the scenes on The White Lotus Season 4?

White, naturally, but another beloved behind-the-scenes fixture crucially won’t be: Cristobal Tapia de Veer, the show’s revered, three-time Emmy-winning composer, who created that iconic “ooh-loo-loo-loo” melody in the opening credits that went onto become a remixed club hit. On April 2, he told The New York Times that his working relationship with White had been a “struggle” from the very beginning, and that during the making of Season 3 they had their “last fight forever” and decided to part ways.