If you’ve already binge-watched Black Doves on Netflix and are desperate to find out what’s next for Helen, Sam and Mr Reed, creator Joe Barton has some news about season three that you just might like.
Joe has revealed that a writers’ room is already together, planning the next thrilling season of Black Doves.
However, he also admits that Netflix has yet to fully greenlight the Keira Knightley-led show.
“We’re doing a writers’ room for it at the moment,” he confirmed to the Radio Times earlier this week, noting that while a third season hasn’t “been officially greenlit”, Netflix is “really behind it”. “I think there’s a lot of willingness and hope that we can carry on doing it,” he enthused.
Joe added that he’d “love” for Black Doves “to run and run”, teasing: “We’re in the process of coming up with the further adventures of Helen and Sam.”
Prior to this, Joe had already told the Pilot TV podcast that a third season is currently “an ongoing conversation” and that Netflix has “been really supportive”, even if the show’s future is apparently “at the whims of market forces”.
As for what a third series could entail, Joe claimed that he’d like to dive deeper into “lesbian murder machines” Eleanor and Williams’ backstories.
Elsewhere in his Radio Times interview, Joe spoke about how he never had a multi-season plan for Black Doves. In fact, he only planned the recently-released season two after Netflix commissioned it, four months after the show’s first outing premiered.
“It went from not existing at all as an idea, to us filming it within about eight months. I always describe it as that bit in Wallace And Gromit when Gromit’s on the train putting the track in front. It was like that the whole way,” he quipped.
Of course, when the showrunner was offered a second season of Black Doves, it opened up a world of possibilities regarding this secret underground of spies, assassins and criminal organisations.
“We didn’t have time to even consider a second series, but when we got the renewal, there were so many possibilities and options,” Joe explained. “We ended up trying a lot of different things and rewriting the first episode quite a lot, and we sort of organically found it. But yeah, we were slightly starting from the beginning again, which was exciting.”
Fingers crossed that confirmation from Netflix is coming soon…
Both seasons of Black Doves are available to stream on Netflix.
