'Time' Renewed for Season 2 By BBC and BritBox

Haven't you ever wanted more time? Apparently, the BBC did, and it's giving it to us. Time, the prison drama starring Sean Bean (World on Fire) and Stephen Graham (The North Water), was widely praised by critics when it premiered in the U.K. in June 2021, and the three-part drama was soon snapped up and brought over by BritBox to U.S. audiences in August of last year. But as a closed-ended series, the possibility of more episodes featuring Bean as a former school teacher turned prisoner Mark Cobden, or Graham as prison officer Eric McNally seemed remote. The story felt complete even though the series ended as two swapped places, with Mark gaining his freedom and Eric locked away.

But in a spate of renewals, the BBC announced that Time would be coming back for a second season. The series was renewed along with Suranne Jones' Vigil, Jamie Dornan's The Tourist, and Martin Freeman's The Responder. The difference between them is that those series will all see the returns of their topline actors, while Time will not. Instead, the show is expanding to become an anthology series. Though The Street's Jimmy McGovern will still pen the new season, the series' second outing will be set in a women's prison facility and feature a brand new cast. Like Season 1, it will run three one-hour installments.

Not much else is known about the new season as of yet. Fans of Bean will probably be disappointed to learn he will not be returning. However, with World War II World on Fire Season 2 rumored to be finally entering pre-production after a long pandemic-induced hiatus, he won't be off our screens for long. Graham, meanwhile, has joined Netflix's Roald Dahl Cinematic Universe and will be starring in Matilda later this year.