The brilliance of HBO's Watchmen is well and truly over.
Damon Lindelof's critically-acclaimed sequel to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's groundbreaking DC Comics masterpiece concluded last month, with fans hoping for more from the former Lost writer.
At least as of now, there will be no more Watchmen. Lindelof has told USA Today that he is not interested in making a second season, though he has given HBO his "blessing" to make one without him.
HBO programming president Casey Bloys expressed doubts on pushing forward without the Watchmen showrunner, saying at the TCA press tour: "It's really in Damon's thinking about what he wants to do. If there's an idea that excited him about another season, another instalment, maybe like a Fargo, True Detective [anthology-type] take on it, or if he wants to do something different altogether.
"We're very proud of Watchmen, but what I'm most interested in [is] what Damon wants to do."
Bloys later admitted: "It would be hard to imagine doing it without Damon involved in some way."
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It was recently revealed that the first season of Watchmen was actually intended to have one additional episode, only for it to be cancelled because Lindelof felt it would be "filler".
"I was like, 'We're just not doing the filler episode. We know exactly what we need to do in our endgame. It's time to start doing it. I don't want to stall'," the writer explained.
The series bowed out in December to an all-time ratings high on HBO in the US, when it was seen by an impressive 1.6 million people on its first night of release.
All episodes of Watchmen are available on Sky Catch Up and NOWTV.
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