The second season of Last King of the Cross has just launched on Paramount+ . The eight-episode series again comes from executive producer Mark Fennessy and Helium Pictures. Eighteen months ago, Fennessy explained to Mediaweek the series was initially planned as a three-part fictionalised drama based on three decades in Ibrahim’s life – 80s, 90s and 2000s.
With 10 episodes or the first outing, and eight for the second, Fennessy said the plan is still to make a third season. But he noted that might need just six episodes to wrap up the story. “The way that season two finishes, we could easily finish it at that point,” he noted, in case there is no commission for more.
“We’ve obviously got to have those discussions with Paramount in due course, subject to the performance of season two. They’re delighted with how season one went. “It ticked every box for them.
It was a big success for Paramount and they’ve been really supportive. I’ve got no reason to believe at this stage that there won’t be a third one. We certainly finish on a really natural kind of ending point if we only end up doing the two series.
” Having more episodes to sell to international buyers make it better proposition, said Fennessy. “ It’s actually quite challenging in the current climate to sell a scripted series that’s only six or eight episodes. Buyers want the potential for it to do two or three seasons.
We’re in very challenging times right now and the whole TV ecosystem is c.