There are many consumers of long-form television who are already getting frustrated with some of their favourite shows taking a long gap of more than two years to bring out a new season. Two shows took this to the extreme, but for justifiable reasons.
The second season of Prime Video's "The Night Manager" arrived a decade after the original landed. But when compared to David Lynch bringing out the third season of "Twin Peaks" 25 years after the second season ended, it doesn't sound that crazy. (In Lynch's case, it made sense from a narrative point of view.)
Will it take as long for the third season of "The Night Manager" to arrive? Not likely, if the words of creator and executive producer David Farr are anything to go by. In an interaction at Deadline's Contenders TV panel to discuss the second show, Farr assured fans that it won't take as long as they are already working on the third entry.
"Right now, I feel the deep weight of doom of stress about it because I'm the one who actually has to do the writing of the damn thing," he shared. "It's a huge challenge. It'll be very exciting. And it won't take as long as the last one, I promise."
While not revealing anything about the Season 3 plot, he hinted that it will address the Season 2 finale, adding that "the world is a tough place at the moment, and it didn't feel right not to reflect that. But of course, all of us want to see justice, redemption, and we want to see something change, so I feel like Season 3, there is actually a deep emotional and moral imperative to honour that."
Actor Tom Hiddleston, who reprised his protagonist Jonathan Pine, didn't lose interest in returning to the world. He added that he was "so thrilled" to play the character again because he is "10 years older, the world is 10 years older."
"I've been in the same world that he had been in. And my belief was always that his courage had never dimmed and his curiosity was still searching, searching for some incorruptible, unassailable, unseducible truth about human beings. Beneath all of the lies and beneath all of the corruption, he's just a crusader. He wants to know the truth about the world. I'm not sure that he's jaded. I think he's just older in a way that perhaps I didn't have to act because I am older and the world is older," he said.