BBC One & FX Renew Tom Hardy's "Taboo" for 2nd Season

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Tom Hardy Drama "Taboo" Renewed for Season 2 by BBC One & FX
by Nancy Tartaglione
March 8, 2017


BBC One and FX are reteaming with Ridley Scott’s Scott Free London and Tom Hardy’s Hardy Son & Baker for a second season of "Taboo". The high-profile period series that stars Hardy and is created by Peaky Blinders‘ Steven Knight with Hardy and his dad, Chips Hardy, had been expected to return.

Knight recently told Deadline he’s got plans for three seasons.





The series began airing in January in both the UK and U.S., drawing a keen fanbase. For the BBC, it’s one of the most successful dramas ever on catch-up service iPlayer and has been popular with younger audiences.

The FX premiere was the net’s most time-shifted series ever in the 18-49 demo and the most time-shifted FX drama series bow in total viewers.







Hardy said today, “We are grateful and excited to continue our relationship with the BBC and FX in contributing towards British drama. Fantastic news.”



Knight added, “I’m thrilled that a work which pushes boundaries has been so well received and found such a large and enthusiastic audience in the U.S. and Britain. We have tried to take an impressionistic, rather than figurative, approach to a narrative which we hope more accurately portrays the spirit of an extraordinary time in history.

James Delaney will continue to explore many realities as he takes his band of misfits to a new world, thanks to FX and the BBC, partners who could not be more suited to collaborating in ground breaking work.”



Exec producer Scott also chimed in, “We’re thrilled people want to know what happens next and that the BBC and FX are up for more adventures with the devil Delaney and the league of the damned. Along with our international distributors, Sonar Entertainment, the BBC and FX have been great partners, supporting Taboo at every stage so it could be the dark, dirty brute of a drama that it is.”



Charlotte Moore, Director of BBC Content, noted that launching in a new Saturday night slot on BBC One:

“provided us with an opportunity to take risks and showcase distinctive drama; and the growing talkability of Taboo has engaged younger audiences seeing record numbers coming to iPlayer, with the availability of the box set maximizing audiences even further. A second series can’t come soon enough.”







Set in 1814, the first season follows James Keziah Delaney (Hardy), a man who has been to the ends of the earth and comes back irrevocably changed. Believed to be long dead, he returns home to London from Africa to inherit what is left of his father’s shipping empire and rebuild a life for himself.

But his father’s legacy is a poisoned chalice, and with enemies lurking in every dark corner, James must navigate increasingly complex territories to avoid his own death sentence. Encircled by conspiracy, murder and betrayal, a dark family mystery unfolds in a combustible tale of love and treachery.

The impressive cast includes Jonathan Pryce, Oona Chaplin, Stephen Graham, Michael Kelly, Jessie Buckley, David Hayman, Tom Hollander, Jason Watkins, Franka Potente, Jefferson Hall, Ed Hogg, Leo Bill, Christopher Fairbank, Richard Dixon, Mark Gatiss, Nicholas Woodeson and Lucian Msamati, along with newcomer Robert Parker.

http://deadline.com/2017/03/taboo-se...ht-1202039117/

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"Taboo" Could Do 2 More Seasons Soon — or None, and It’s Up to Tom Hardy, FX Chief Says
by Nellie Andreeva
August 6, 2019


It’s been more than two years since FX and BBC One renewed Tom Hardy’s high-profile period drama series "Taboo" for an eight-episode second season. But the new season is not much closer to reality now than it was when originally ordered in April 2017.

“I can’t even tell you how many conversations we’ve had but we literally talked to Steven Knight about it yesterday,” FX Chairman John Landgraf told Deadline at TCA. “He has an idea for a potential second and a potential third season of Taboo.”

“It really just comes down to Tom; it comes down to what Tom wants to do, when he wants to do it, when he is available,” Landgraf said. “I could see both those seasons getting made and relatively soon, and I could see neither of those seasons getting made.”




If "Taboo" ends up making one or more additional seasons, Hardy, who also is an executive producer on the series, could scale back his on-screen presence.

“We’ve talked about — and are still talking about — the possibility of doing a season of which Tom would be a part of but not at the very center of it,” Landgraf said.

“He seems very emotionally, very committed to this character, though, and very committed to this show. And Steven is still passionate and wants to write it, but It comes down to Tom’s availability.”

https://deadline.com/2019/08/taboo-2...ys-1202663165/