{"id":16505,"date":"2022-06-06T18:43:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T16:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1657013"},"modified":"2022-06-06T19:18:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T17:18:18","slug":"keeley-hawes-drops-hints-about-the-midwich-cuckoos-season-2","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/keeley-hawes-drops-hints-about-the-midwich-cuckoos-season-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeley Hawes drops hints about The Midwich Cuckoos season 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Lauren Morris\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Monday, 06 June 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The Midwich Cuckoos premiered on Sky Max last week, with the new adaptation bringing John Wyndham\u2019s <a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Midwich-Cuckoos-John-Wyndham\/dp\/0141033010\/?tag=radtim0b-21&amp;ascsubtag=radiotimes-0&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\" data-geniuslink=\"&quot;https:\/\/buy.geni.us\/Proxy.ashx?TSID=114542&amp;GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FMidwich-Cuckoos-John-Wyndham%2Fdp%2F0141033010%2F%3Ftag%3Dradtim0b-21%26ascsubtag%3Dradiotimes-1306274&amp;dtb=1&quot;\">book of the same name<\/a> about paranormal pregnancies to the screen once again \u2013 and if you\u2019re already hoping for a second season, then you\u2019re in good company.<\/p>\n<p>Keeley Hawes, who stars as Dr Susannah Zellaby in the drama, has spoken about a possible season 2, telling <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">RadioTimes.com<\/a> and other press that a follow-up could see the <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/the-midwich-cuckoos-release-date\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Midwich Cuckoos<\/a> come \u201cto a town near you\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the future of the show, Hawes said: \u201c<span style=\"&quot;font-weight:\">I\u2019d certainly like to see more of the Cuckoos and their adventures. There\u2019s lots you could do. You could do lots of fun with them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Synn\u00f8ve Karlsen, who plays Cassie Stone in The Midwich Cuckoos, added: \u201c<span style=\"&quot;font-weight:\">There\u2019s plenty of scope for the story continuing. Yeah, it\u2019s just\u2026 we\u2019ll have to see what happens. We can\u2019t give away spoilers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"&quot;font-weight:\">Cuckoos have a sort of strange feature of popping up in the strangest places, don\u2019t they? Midwich, for example. They could be coming to a town near you, soon. <\/span><span style=\"&quot;font-weight:\">I just made that one up as I went along. I don\u2019t know anything about anything!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"&quot;image-handler__container\" image-handler__container--aspect=\"\" style=\"&quot;padding-bottom:\" calc=\"\"> <picture><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/0107TheMidwichCuckoosS01-1f8f9dd.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=299%2C199,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/0107TheMidwichCuckoosS01-1f8f9dd.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=299%2C199,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/0107TheMidwichCuckoosS01-1f8f9dd.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=354%2C236,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source 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class=\"&quot;wp-image-1653322\" align=\"\" size-landscape_thumbnail=\"\" image-handler__image=\"\" image-handler__image--aspect=\"\" no-wrap=\"\" js-lazyload=\"\" data-src=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/0107TheMidwichCuckoosS01-1f8f9dd.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=620%2C413&quot;\" width=\"&quot;620&quot;\" height=\"&quot;413&quot;\" alt=\"&quot;&quot;\" title=\"&quot;&quot;\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div><div class=\"&quot;caption-hold&quot;\"><figcaption class=\"&quot;wp-caption-text&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;caption-copy&quot;\"><i class=\"&quot;icon-arrow\" icon-camera-circle=\"\"\/> Synn\u00f8ve Karlsen as Cassie Stone in The Midwich Cuckoos.<\/span><\/figcaption><span class=\"&quot;im-image-caption&quot;\"> <i>Sky \/ David Appleby<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<p>While Hawes and Karlsen have said they would like to return for a second season, creator David Farr told <strong>RadioTimes.com<\/strong> in an exclusive interview that the show was \u201cnever intended\u201d to be easily repeated for season 2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"&quot;font-weight:\">It completely finishes, and that\u2019s really important to all of us. We wanted to do a complete story. That\u2019s its thing,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"&quot;font-weight:\">\u201cBecause it\u2019s a conceptual idea, if Sky get very enthusiastic, then there is the possibility of it expanding and becoming something slightly different, I would say. But it\u2019s not a kind of classic repeatable. It\u2019s definitely not that. It was never intended to be.\u201d<\/span><\/p> <p>However, director Alice Troughton added: \u201c<span style=\"&quot;font-weight:\">The idea of the Cuckoos is a universal idea. You could do <\/span><span style=\"&quot;font-weight:\">The Midwich Cuckoos \u2013<\/span><span style=\"&quot;font-weight:\">\u00a0we don\u2019t know whether they landed in India or the Himalayas. We don\u2019t know where they landed. We just choose to show Amersham, because that\u2019s where we\u2019re focused on. But who knows where they ended up?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The seven-part season follows Dr Susannah Zellaby as she investigates an English town in which all women of child-bearing age have inexplicably fallen pregnant and are starting to give birth to children with supernatural features.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Midwich Cuckoos is available to stream on Sky Max and NOW \u2013 <a href=\"\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?id=489797&amp;clickref=radiotimes-0&amp;awinmid=11005&amp;p=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sky.com%2Fshop%2Ftv&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\">sign up for Sky TV here<\/a>. Looking for something else to watch? 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