Doctor Foster fans are used to waiting a long time for more drama from the series – there were nearly two years between season one's shocking finale in 2015 and the much-anticipated season two premiere in September this year, after all.

But if you're already counting down the days until you get to see new episodes of Doctor Foster once again, you'll be waiting a very long time.

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Series star Suranne Jones dropped by The Graham Norton Show recently where Graham wasted no time in grilling the actress on the possibility of a season three.

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"There are no plans," she shared, "because everyone is busy and I am working all of next year so I just don't know."

Booo! That's not what we want to hear, Suranne.

Although, whether or not a third season could actually happen at all following the season two final is another question entirely.

Doctor Foster writer Mike Bartlett has previously hinted that a third series of the show is certainly possible, but a lot of conversations need to be had first.

"You can see the ending," Bartlett said. "Tom's gone. So there's a question mark. In a way that is a question mark at the end.

"And I think it works as an end to this series and all the things that have been going on. Clearly there's potential there. But obviously there would have to be lots of conversations."

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During the chat with Graham, Suranne also opened up about the show's overwhelming success and how it differed to every other project she'd worked on before.

"It just went crazy," she said. "I've never done a show before where people got so behind it. You couldn't binge watch it so I think it had that 'water cooler' effect and people loved it.

"People are quite disappointed that I am quite nice when they meet me and not mad like my character."

The Graham Norton Show's New Year's Eve special airs on Sunday, December 31 at 10.20pm.


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