Stranger Things season 5: When will the last season of the popular Netflix science fiction horror show be released and when did filming begin for the series starring Leeds actor Charlie Heaton

The first series of the show, which was created by The Duffer Brothers, was released in July 2016 and since then the show has attracted millions of viewers over the years. According to a YouGov survey, a fifth of UK Netflix subscribers watched the show in the first week of the second series, meaning that out of a total of 6.5 million UK Netflix subscribers, 1.3 million watched the show that season.

Its wildly positive reaction saw the huge success of young actors Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven), Finn Wolfhard (Mike Wheeler), Noah Schnapp (Will Byers), Gaten Matarazzo (Dustin Henderson), Caleb McLaughlin (Lucas Sinclair) and Sadie Sink (Max Mayfield). Leeds actor Charlie Heaton, who plays the role of Jonathan Byers, has also seen success in the industry, starring in films such as Marrowbone, The New Mutants, No Future and The Souvenir Part II.

The Stranger Things Twitter account has announced that the production crew and actors will begin filming in July 2023 and that the last season will be split into volumes similar to the previous season.

So far there has not been an exact date announced for the release of volume one of series five, but the first part of the last season is expected to be released sometime in 2024.

More information to follow.