"The Night Manager" Renewed for Season 2 with Tom Hiddleston Set to Return

The smash John le Carré adaptation "The Night Manager" has been renewed for a second season at Amazon Prime Video and the BBC, with Tom Hiddleston set to reprise his role as protagonist Jonathan Pine.

Season 2 will film under the codename "Steelworks" later this year in London and South America. 

Although it is yet to be formally greenlit by Amazon and the BBC, it is set to receive a two-season order. David Farr, who wrote the original, is back to write Season 2.

Rumors of a second season have circulated since the first ended in late 2016.

The first season initially aired in 2016 and was met with critical acclaim as well as one of the top-rated UK dramas of that year, aired on AMC in the U.S. 

"The Night Manager" won two Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards and spawned a number of subsequent le Carré adaptations from The Ink Factory — which is run by le Carré’s sons Simon and Stephen Cornwell — including "Little Drummer Girl" starring Florence Pugh.

It followed Pine, the night manager of a luxury Cairo hotel and former British soldier who is recruited by the manager of a Foreign Office taskforce to infiltrate Roper’s inner circle.

Penned by Farr and directed by Susanne Bier, the first season also starred Hugh Laurie, Olivia Colman, Tom Hollander, Elizabeth Debicki, and David Harewood.

The second run of The Ink Factory’s adaptation is set in the present day and follows British arms dealer Richard Roper (Laurie) being taken away by the Syrians at the end of Season 1, Hiddleston’s Pine is informed he is dead two years later, and he has to face up to a new, even more, deadly challenge.