Bill Lawrence Teases “A New Story, Same Cast” For ‘Shrinking’ Season 4

As the Season 3 finale of Shrinking approaches, Bill Lawrence is giving fans closure on one story and preparing to move on to the next.

The Apple TV+ series co-creator teased ahead of the finale, which debuts Wednesday on the streaming platform, that Season 4 of the comedy-drama will feature “a new story with the same cast.”

“Season finale and end of this three season story next week. Hope you dig it. (Excited to start completely new story next year. Feels scary/risky/fun),” he wrote on X. “Thanks for watching.”

Lawrence clarified for a fan in another post, “We always pitched a three season story on #Shrinking grief-forgiveness-moving forward. We wanted to stay true to that and end the way we planned. (So excited to do Season 4 and a new story with the same cast.)”

In the show’s current iteration, Shrinking stars Jason Segel as therapist Jimmy Laird, who struggles to repair his relationship with his daughter Alice (Lukita Maxwell) while trying cope with the death of his wife, with help from his own therapist and mentor Dr. Paul Rhoades (Harrison Ford).

The series also stars Jessica Williams, Luke Tennie, Michael Urie, Christa Miller and Ted McGinley, with Season 3 featuring guest appearances from Michael J. Fox, Jeff Daniels, Sherry Cola, Lisa Gilroy and more.

After Apple gave Shrinking an early Season 4 renewal in January, Lawrence explained to Deadline why it’s time to move on from the current arc, much like he’s doing with the upcoming fourth season of Apple’s Ted Lasso.

“The same way that Shrinking, if the fourth season started and Jason Segel woke up and went, ‘you know I’ve been thinking about it, and I was still super sad about my wife,’ everybody would be like, What are you doing? We saw that already,” explained Lawrence. “But as a writer, he told 36 stories with these actors and actresses. We have a new story to tell, and that’ll either be, two- or three-season story or it won’t. I never find that stuff daunting.”