BBC Confirms Return of 'Wolf Hall' for a Second Season
Here’s a piece of news most Anglophiles probably thought they’d never hear: Wolf Hall is coming back.
Yes, you read that right. After nearly five years, a second run of the Thomas Cromwell-focused period drama will be heading back to our screens. Sometime. We don’t know exactly when it might run, who will be involved in producing it or even who might actually star in it.
But we do, finally, have official confirmation that Wolf Hall Season 2 is officially happening. At some point.
Charlotte Moore, the BBC’s Director of Content, told the Radio Times that a sequel to the award-winning 2015 original series is officially in the works.
The first two novels in author Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy – Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies – were combined into the original six part series. It follows the story of Cromwell’s rise from a mere blacksmith’s son to one of the most powerful figures in the court of King Henry VIII. He was – among many other things - one of the primary architects of the Protestant Reformation in England, and largely responsible for the dissolution of Henry’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon. (If you're a little fuzzy on what, exactly, happened during the first season of Wolf Hall, we've got recaps of every episode here.)
