The Night Manager confirmed for second series with new script ‘being developed’

The first series, starring Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie, won three Golden Globes
Return: The Night Manager has been confirmed for a second series
BBC
Jennifer Ruby8 March 2017

The Night Manager is set to return for a second series following its huge success last year.

Director Susanne Bier has confirmed that a follow-up script is ‘slowly being developed’, despite the fact that Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie dismissed rumours of a sequel.

“We all very much want to do a Season Two, but the thing we absolutely do not want is to do something that does not live up to the level of Season One. That would be a really bad idea,” she told Broadcast.

Bier went on to say that the follow-up is being developed by a ‘team of writers’ for the BBC and US co-producers AMC.

Producer Simon Cornwell, who is the son of Night Manager author John Le Carre, recently said that he was keen to tackle a sequel.

“There’s no book and there’s never been a Le Carré story that has been extended beyond the confines of the novel. It would be interesting to try that,” he told the Radio Times.

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“We wouldn’t do something that we didn’t feel had a fighting chance of being even better than the first one. We might not succeed, but I think if you don’t go in with ambition, there’s actually no point in doing it.”

Laurie, who played arms dealer Richard Roper, said that he couldn’t imagine making a follow-up as there was no source material.

“It’s based on a novel, we’ve got to the end of the novel and John Le Carré has yet to write another novel, so in cold practical terms, no, we’re done,” he said last year.

The Night Manager picked up an impressive three Golden Globes, including the Best Actor prize for Hiddleston.

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