Peaky Blinders boss addresses possible This Town season 2
Peaky Blinders boss Steven Knight has spoken about This Town's potential second season.
Currently airing on BBC One across six episodes, his latest TV project takes viewers back to the political and social tumult of 1981 and charts the origins of a fictional UK rock band.
Asked in a Q&A with Digital Spy and other media whether he'd written This Town with more than one season in mind, Knight answered: "Always. I think if you want to do one you have to not plan it, but think that you're going to be with these people for quite a long time.
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"They go on a journey, you've got to get to the end destination, you don't quite know how many series that is," he continued to explain, before waxing lyrical (excuse the pun) on the format's advantages.
"What's good about television rather than film is that I think you can have a character that's unsympathetic for a long time. But then redeem them, which is great. So you know, our villain in this, my plan is that in the end we're gonna love him.
"But the idea is that with 90 minutes or two hours of a movie, you've got to get on with it. But with television, you can sort of keep it going. So yeah, there's always a thought that these characters are going to mature over quite a long period of time."
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Knight, who also created Jason Momoa's See series, SAS: Rogue Heroes and Taboo, then confirmed that the next load of episodes would visit his hometown of Birmingham.
This Town airs weekly on BBC One, while the entire series is available to stream on BBC iPlayer.
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