As is the norm these days, if something on TV is a resounding success you give it a second season (whether warranted or not), as is the case of The Night Manager.
The acclaimed first series wowed viewers when it first premiered a few years ago, and talk of a second outing has been rife ever since, even though the book the first series is based on never actually got a sequel.
However, even though a second outing seemed to be underway with a bunch of writers reported to have signed on, one of the show's producers has now put a bit of a dampener on it happening – at least in the near future.
"Actually, not being cute, I really don't know," executive producer and son of original author John le Carré, Simon Cornwell, told Television magazine.
"We don't have scripts for it yet, and we would only think about making a second series of The Night Manager if it was going to be really good.
"And I'm sure that Hugh [Laurie] and Tom [Hiddleston] and Olivia [Colman], who are not exactly underemployed actors, won't want to come back unless it's excellent, frankly. And, you know, we have all of le Carré's body of work to pick from."
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It's slightly less optimistic than a few months ago, when one of the writers, Charles Cumming, gave a hopeful update and said we could expect "some" of the first season's characters to return.
"Some characters that the audience know and love will be returning, others will not," he explained. "The locations will be sumptuous, the plot as thrilling and as thematically complex as a le Carré story should be."
It's also worth noting that the show is yet to actually to be officially renewed for a second season, so we'll just have to watch this space and see.
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