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The Hargreeves family is hanging around Hamilton for another year.

Netflix has announced it has renewed its blockbuster series “The Umbrella Academy” for a 4th season.

The show about a dysfunctional bunch of adopted siblings with superpowers has made Hamilton an important part of the show’s atmosphere, though Hammerwood is standing in for Dallas. An old bank building at 54 King Street East, near Gore Park, has been the front for the academy.

“Family meeting, Brellies: We’re going on a 4th and final adventure,” Netflix tweeted August 25.

The 3rd season dropped on the streaming service June 22 and Netflix said for the five weeks after June 19 it was one of their top 10 watched shows. TelevisionStats.com, which tracks the popularity of shows on such metrics and Twitter and Google, said “The Umbrella Academy” was the third most popular show in the world three weeks after its upload on Netflix.

The show has also filmed at Gage Park, Ottawa Street North, Hamilton City Hall, Dyment’s Country Bakery and Farm Market in Flamborough.

The show stars Colm Feore as Sir Reginald Hargreeves, who adopts the siblings that include Viktor (Elliot Page), Luther (Tom Hooper) and Klaus (Robert Sheehan). The show has taken the family on time travelling adventures.

The second season ended with the family saving the world, but returning in the third season into a new world where Hargreeves had adopted other children and the King Street site was the Sparrow Academy.

The third season ended with the siblings stepping into a brand new timeline where they are without super powers and some of the siblings are missing. It is becoming clear that some of this may be part of Sir Reginald’s plan to reunite himself with his dead wife Abigail.

There is talk that cameras could roll by the end of the year.

The Motion Picture Association of Canada says “The Umbrella Academy” contributed more than $77 million to Ontario’s economy when it filmed its second season before the pandemic. An analysis by Oxford Economics found that wages and salaries accounted for nearly 60 per cent of production spending, with the rest spent on services and local goods. The report says nearly 1,000 Ontario companies did business with the production.

The MPA-Canada said the Universal Studio show shot at more than 38 locations and it noted Hamilton’s starring role, including an apocalypse in Gore Park to time travel portals in the alleys of Ottawa Street North.

In a statement, Mayor Fred Eisenberger said the city’s film office was “ecstatic” to have contributed to the success of the show “while furthering the economic engine that is our local film and TV industry.”

While the Hargreeves family will be back, another of Netflix’s shows that filmed in the Hamilton area will not. Netflix announced the third season for “Locke and Key” will be its last. The season started streaming August 10.

The show was about the Locke family who move into a Victorian mansion called the Keyhouse and their adventures linked to mysterious keys found in the home.

The show shot at such places as Westfield Heritage Village, but the mansion was situated at the back of a farm on Concession 11 East, near Freelton. Well, not all of it. Just a two storey facade. The rest was created with computer special effects.

The season featured a wedding between two main characters.

The second season of the Hamilton-based sitcom “Strays” premieres Tuesday, Sept. 13, at 8:30 p.m. on CBC and CBC Gem. New will be Hamilton actor Dennis Andres. He plays Travis, a love interest to Shannon Ross (Nicole Power) who runs the Hamilton East Animal Shelter. The first episode will see Ross meet Travis and also focus on her efforts to impress a new board member who seems to be grooming another staff member to take Ross’ job. The show filmed at such places as Ottawa Street North.

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