The Night Manager season two is set to end in the UK on Sunday night and fans are already wondering about a third series
Nearly a decade separated The Night Manager’s first and second seasons, and with the latter concluding in a much-anticipated finale on Sunday 2 February, viewers are already wondering whether a third instalment might be on the horizon.
The BBC’s The Night Manager centres on MI6 agent Jonathan Pine, portrayed by Tom Hiddleston, who returned for the second season operating under the cover names Alex Goodwin and Matthew Ellis.
This latest run has seen the return of numerous familiar faces from the original series, including Olivia Colman, Douglas Hodge, Michael Nardone and Noah Jupe, alongside Pine’s nemesis Richard Roper, brought to life by Hugh Laurie, with the adversaries reuniting for the first time in the second season’s penultimate instalment.
The fifth episode concluded with a dramatic cliffhanger, as Basil Karapetian, portrayed by Paul Chahidi, seemingly met his end after arranging Pine’s most recent covert assignment. The concluding episode will also reveal where the allegiances lie for Roper’s son Teddy Dos Santos, played by newcomer Diego Calva, and his associate Roxana Bolaños, brought to life by Camila Morrone.
However, with the series finale approaching, speculation is mounting about whether a third season could materialise. Here’s everything we know so far, reports Wales Online.
Will The Night Manager return for season three?
The Night Manager draws from characters conceived by John le Carré, though unlike the debut series, the second season ventures beyond the source material rather than directly adapting it. Discussing the second series beforehand, Tom Hiddleston remarked: “David Farr has achieved the impossible. The Night Manager was based on a novel by John le Carré, there was no second novel, no sequel. David has written it with all the sophistication and complexity that le Carré would approve of and admire. Teddy, Roxana, Colombia, Alex Goodwin and Matthew Ellis have all emerged from David’s imagination. This is where he chose to go, and we all followed him there. “.
Given this context, director Georgi Banks-Davies was questioned about whether discussions had taken place regarding extending the story into a third series. In conversation with Variety, she revealed: “There was a third season that was always in the offing. David [Farr] is writing it now – he’s at the coalface and in the early stage.
“But yeah, when the the second season came the plan was to go to three. So when you see our whole series, you’ll see it can sit entirely alone but can also sit very much as the second book in the trilogy.”
Furthermore, when questioned about a potential third series earlier this month, Tom informed TV Insider: “It’s not in official pre-production, but it’s in official development… We’re working on it, we’re refining the story and the architecture of what we really like.
“It’s very exciting because we’ve always been able to plan Season 2 and Season 3 as a two-volume story – 12 hours and 12 episodes are very different from six episodes, so we know where the story ends.”
And whilst the BBC hasn’t confirmed whether or when we might see a third series, if the team are currently developing it, it’s doubtful we’ll be waiting a full decade for the programme to return.
The Night Manager season two finale airs Sunday, February 2 at 9pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.


