Tom Hardy and Steven Knight say Taboo Season 2 is being written, release still unclear

Tom Hardy and Taboo co-creator Steven Knight remain invested in a second season and, as of early 2026, have been working on the project: Hardy told LadBible in March 2025, "We’re writing that at the moment," and Knight told Radio Times he and Hardy "are both keen to continue" though schedules and direction must be decided.

Taboo, created by Steven Knight from a story by Tom and Chips Hardy, follows James Keziah Delaney, an explorer who returns to England after a decade in Africa to inherit Nootka Sound while the East India Company seeks to buy the land amid the coming end of the War of 1812. Hardy has described Taboo as a very personal project he wrote with his father and said it must be done "properly," noting the series took a backseat while he worked on other projects and that he will revisit it when he can fully commit (MovieWeb).

Season 1 ended with Delaney avenging the East India Company by planting a bomb that killed Stuart Strange (Jonathan Pryce) and with the suicides or deaths of characters such as Zilpha (Oona Chaplin), Winter (Ruby-May Martinwood) and Benjamin Wilton (Leo Bill), making Pryce, Chaplin, Bill and Martinwood unlikely to return except possibly in flashbacks; surviving cast members like Jessie Buckley, Jefferson Hall, Louis Ashbourne Serkis and Stephen Graham are expected to have ongoing roles and Season 2 would likely mirror Season 1’s eight-episode format.

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