The dark comedy Psychoville, the brainchild of League Of Gentlemen members Reese Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, has been recommisioned for a Christmas special and another six-part series next year -- following its success earlier this summer, where it attracted an average of 1.7 million viewers every Thursday. Read more here.
I'm torn about this news, because I thought the way Psychoville "ended" was a big disappointment and felt unearned because we'd been led to believe the show was a self-contained "miniseries". I'm certainly not convinced the existing characters have mileage to last another series, so I'd be more excited if Psychoville had completed its story and we were being promised a new tale with different characters.
Of course, there are strong rumours that Pemberton and Shearsmith only included a divisive cliffhanger to try and provoke the BBC into greenlighting a second series, so they have every intention of wiping the slate clean. Hopefully this means the Christmas special will tie-up the loose-ends from series 1's finale, and we'll get a new assortment of grotesques to follow in 2010.
What do you think? Are you excited for more, whatever happens, or are you hesitant because of how series 1 ended?
