Taboo Renewed for Second Season

LOS ANGELES: Taboo, which stars Tom Hardy, has been renewed for a second season by FX and BBC One.

The first season was among the highest-rated new cable dramas of the past year in the U.S. Across all linear and nonlinear platforms, the first season of Taboo is averaging 5.8 million total viewers on FX. Taboo is created by Steven Knight with Tom Hardy and Chips Hardy.

“We are grateful and excited to continue our relationship with the BBC and FX in contributing towards British drama—fantastic news,” said Hardy.

“Taboo’s first season was exceptional and its success on FX is testament to the creative excellence and dedication of the producers, cast and crew,” said Eric Schrier, the president of original programming at FX Networks and FX Productions. “We are proud to partner with BBC One and Sonar Entertainment on the second season and look forward to working again with the great Tom Hardy, Steven Knight, Ridley Scott and everyone who makes Taboo so remarkable.”

“I’m thrilled that a work which pushes boundaries has been so well received and found such a large and enthusiastic audience in the U.S. and Britain,” said Knight. ”We have tried to take an impressionistic, rather than figurative, approach to a narrative which we hope more accurately portrays the spirit of an extraordinary time in history. James Delaney will continue to explore many realities as he takes his band of misfits to a new world, thanks to FX and the BBC, partners who could not be more suited to collaborating in groundbreaking work.”