{"id":31330,"date":"2023-03-21T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T07:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1803412"},"modified":"2023-03-21T14:04:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T13:04:42","slug":"taboo-producers-are-currently-working-on-long-awaited-season-2","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/taboo-producers-are-currently-working-on-long-awaited-season-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Taboo producers are \u201ccurrently\u201d working on long-awaited season 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> The team behind Great Expectations are at work on Taboo&#8217;s second season, over six years after the first debuted. <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By James Hibbs\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Tuesday, 21 March 2023 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>It\u2019s been over six years since Tom Hardy drama series <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/taboo-season-2-release-date-tom-hardy\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Taboo<\/a> first aired on BBC One, but now it truly does seem the wheels are in motion on the show\u2019s long-awaited second season.<\/p>\n<p>The series was created by Hardy, his father Chips Hardy and <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/peaky-blinders-season-7-release-cancelled-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Peaky Blinders<\/a> creator Steven Knight, who also acts as writer. The latter has a busy slate at the moment, but it appears Taboo is very much at the forefront of his workload now.<\/p>\n<p>As his series <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/great-expectations-bbc-release-date\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Great Expectations<\/a>, which comes from the same team behind Taboo, arrives on screens soon, executive producers Dean Baker and Kate Crowe were asked about their partnership with Hardy and fellow executive producer Ridley Scott, and whether they have any more stories they are planning to tell together.<\/p>\n<p>Baker said: \u201cCurrently we are working on a second season of Taboo, and hopefully we will get to explore more Dickens with Steve, Ridley and Tom.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"&quot;image-handler__container\" image-handler__container--aspect=\"\" style=\"&quot;padding-bottom:\" calc=\"\"> <picture><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" 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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=\"\"\/> Tom Hardy as James Keziah Delaney in Taboo.<\/span><\/figcaption><span class=\"&quot;im-image-caption&quot;\"> <i>BBC<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<p>This follows <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/taboo-season-2-production-2023-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">comments from Knight himself<\/a>, who last year said of the show\u2019s second season: \u201cI imagine that it will start production towards the end of next year. [Tom and I] are both keen to continue and there are lots of people who want us to continue in that direction. It\u2019s been a question of schedules and deciding where it goes next.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/dope-girls-peaky-blinders-successor-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">BBC\u2019s \u2018successor to Peaky Blinders\u2019, Dope Girls, in the works<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/stephen-graham-boxing-drama-stars-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">More stars announced for Stephen Graham drama from Peaky Blinders creator<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><p>The first season, which co-starred Jessie Buckley, Oona Chaplin and Stephen Graham, explored the dark side of 19th century London, with Hardy\u2019s adventurer and businessman\u00a0James Delaney returning to England after spending 12 years in Africa.<\/p> <p>Knight\u2019s latest series, an adaptation of Great Expectations, stars Fionn Whitehead (<a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/sci-fi\/black-mirror-season-6-cinematic-netflix-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Black Mirror: Bandersnatch<\/a>) as Pip and <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/great-expectations-images-olivia-colman-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham<\/a>, while Shalom Brune-Franklin, Ashley Thomas, Johnny Harris, Hayley Squires and Owen McDonnell round out the cast.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Taboo season 1 is available on both <a href=\"\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episodes\/b088s45m\/taboo&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">BBC iPlayer<\/a> and <a href=\"\/\/www.netflix.com\/gb\/title\/80158276&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Netflix<\/a> now. <a href=\"\/\/www.netflix.com\/gb\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener noopener noreferrer\" noreferrer=\"\" data-auth=\"&quot;NotApplicable&quot;\" data-safelink=\"&quot;true&quot;\" data-linkindex=\"&quot;1&quot;\">Sign up for Netflix from \u00a34.99 a month<\/a>. 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