Tom Hardy’s Taboo Could Return For A Second Season

More Empire Building Ahead?

Steven Knight’s Peaky Blinders may have ended (although a spin-off film is still in production) and last week he admitted in TV trade paper Broadcast that he is in early discussions with Tom Hardy about a second run for BBC drama Taboo, our friends over at Radio Times reported this week…

Knight said to Broadcast: “I imagine that it will start production towards the end of next year. [Tom and I] are both keen to continue and there are lots of people who want us to continue in that direction. It’s been a question of schedules and deciding where it goes next.”

The first season of Taboo, which explored the dark side of 19th century Victorian London and co-starred Jessie Buckley, Oona Chaplin and Stephen Graham among others, was a critical hit but also one with audiences too. When it ended in 2017, there has been talk of another run but this is the closest so far to confirming that it could be back as soon as sometime next year.

Hardy did give an update on the series’ continuation last year to Radio Times, saying that it “really, really important” to him, and saying that “We’re still playing with ideas: you could go linear, a continuation of time, or we could drop prior to London or we could quantum-leap through time! I don’t know whether to go orthodox – there’s a series of that already written – but I don’t know if that’s the right way to go.”

More news on this as it comes out over the next few months.