Stephen Knight Talks Tom Hardy’s Taboo

Breaking The Last Taboo?

♦FX’s new drama miniseries Taboo starring Tom Hardy, started last night on BBC1, and its showrunner Stephen Knight spoke to our friends over at Collider last year about its genesis and development…

Taboo is a British drama television miniseries created by Steven Knight. The eight-episode miniseries is about an adventurer who returns to Britain from Africa along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father.Kristoffer Nyholm will direct the first four episodes. The miniseries, created from a story co-written by Tom Hardy and his father, Chips Hardy, who will act as a consulting producer, will premiere on BBC One in the United Kingdom and FX in the United States. On 14 September 2016, during the American Horror Story: Roanoke premiere, the first commercial for the show revealed it was going to be released in early 2017. Taboo is on BBC in the UK from last night Saturday 7 January 2017.