HBO will say goodbye to assassin/actor Barry Berkman as the network’s Emmy-award winning series Barry will end its run after season four.

Barry will launch its eight-episode, fourth and final season on April 16, according to HBO. Barry follows Berkman, played by Bill Hader, who works as a reluctant hitman who changes course and joins a class of aspiring actors but is never able to escape his past.

The series has won multiple Emmy Awards, including two for Hader in the outstanding lead actor in a comedy category and a supporting actor in a comedy series award for Henry Winkler.

Along with Hader and Winkler, the series stars Sarah Goldberg, Stephen Root, Anthony Carrigan and Sarah Burns.

Barry is executive produced by Hader, Alex Berg, Aida Rodgers and Liz Sarnoff.

“After three masterful seasons of Barry, we are eager for viewers to see the powerful, complex and hilarious conclusion to Barry Berkman’s story," HBO and HBO Max Comedy Programming Executive VP Amy Gravitt said in a statement. "It has been a pleasure working with this immensely talented team including Bill Hader, Alec Berg, Aida Rodgers and the entire exceptional cast and crew.”

Barry's final season announcement comes on the heels of the March 26 launch of HBO's Emmy-winning series Succession's fourth and final season. ■ 

HBO will bring back its Emmy-winning comedy series Barry for a fourth season, the network said Thursday.

The series, which is currently airing new, third-season episodes on HBO, will return for a fourth season with series star Bill Hader directing all eight episodes. The series will continue to follow the exploits of a contract killer looking to make a career change to become an actor.

Along with Hader, the series also stars Emmy winning actor Henry Winkler, Stephen Root, Sarah Goldberg, Anthony Carrigan and Sarah Burns.

Barry is executive produced by Hader, Alex Berg, Aida Rodgers and Liz Sarnoff.

Also: Warner Bros. Discovery Touts Content Portfolio Strength at Upfront Presentation

“Bill, Alec and the entire cast and crew delivered an exquisite third season of Barry, it’s a masterful blend of laughs and suspense,” Amy Gravitt, executive VP, HBO Programming in a statement. “I’m so happy to announce that we are picking up the fourth season.” ■

HBO’s Emmy-winning dramedy Barry returns for its third season on April 24, part of a number of announcements made by the premium service during its Television Critics Association Winter press tour session Tuesday.

The eight-episode, third season of the series, which stars Bill Hader, returns with lead character Barry Berkman -- played by Hader -- attempting to untangle himself from the world of contract killing and to fully immerse himself in acting, but finding that getting out is messy, according to HBO.

The first two seasons of Barry received a total of 30 Emmy nominations and six Emmys. Also starring in the series is Henry Winkler, Stephen Root, Sarah Goldberg and Anthony Carrigan. Barry is executive produced by Hader, Alec Berg, Aida Rodgers and Liz Sarnof.

--HBO also announced a spring launch of The Time Traveler’s Wife, a six-episode series that tells the story of a married couple dealing with the effects of time travel, according to the network.  The series stars Rose Leslie, Theo James, Desmin Borges, and Natasha Lopez.

--HBO will shine a light on the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force in a new six-episode limited series We Own This City, premiering April 25. The series, executive produced by The Wire’s George Pelecanos and David Simon and based on the book by Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton, chronicles the corruption and moral collapse that befell an American city in which the policies of drug prohibition and mass arrest were championed at the expense of actual police work, said the network. 

--In May the network will debut a new documentary series, George Carlin’s American Dream, which chronicles the life and work of legendary comedian George Carlin told through never-before-seen archival material and interviews with comedians such as Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld and Stephen Colbert.■
 

HBO Friday released the official video trailer for its comedy series Barry, which returns for its sophomore season March 31.

The series, which stars Emmy Award winners Bill Hader and Henry Winkler, follows the exploits of a depressed hitman who turns to acting as a refuge from his tumultuous and dangerous career. 

Barry won 2018 Emmy Awards for best actor in a comedy series (Hader) and best supporting actor in a comedy series (Winkler).  

Veteran actor Henry Winkler was the surprise Emmy winner in the Outstanding Supporting Actor in A Comedy Series category, the first award presented during NBC’s Emmy Awards telecast.

Winkler, who portrayed Gene Cousineau in HBO’s freshman series Barry, upset last year’s winner Alec Baldwin, who portrayed President Donald Trump on NBC’s Saturday Night Live. Also nominated in the category was Atlanta’s Brian Tyree Henry, Basket’s Louie Anderson, Saturday Night Live’s Kenan Thompson, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s Tony Shalhoub and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’s Titus Burgess.

The Emmy win is the first for Winkler, who had been nominated previously for his role as Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli on ABC's 1970's sitcom Happy Days.

Alex Bornstein (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) took home the Emmy for the Outstanding Supporting actress In a Comedy Series, besting Zazie Beetz (Atlanta), Laurie Metcalf (Roseanne) Leslie Jones (Saturday Night Live), Betty Gilpin (GLOW), Aidy Bryant and Kate McKinnon (Saturday Night Live); and Megan Mullally (Will & Grace)