Sunday 29 August 2010

'Misfits' third series greenlit

Sunday 29 August 2010
Speaking to SFX Magazine, Howard Overman has confirmed that his teen superhero drama Misfits has already been given a third series, before the second has even aired! Apparently, this year's Christmas special will provide a transitional link to series 3, which promises to be very different...

Howard Overman:

"[The show] will have to change for a third series because they will have finished their community service. It's a difficult one, because they commissioned it as a Christmas special and they said they wanted it stand-alone, but in reality the transmission date will be a week after the end of the second series. So to the audience, no mater how it's marketed, they will be thinking it's just an episode seven.

"So it does feel different to the other episodes but you can't ignore that everyone will have been watching the week before. I suppose what it does, is it provides a link between the second series and the third series, where it sort of gives a hint of the direction we might head in for a third season, with their personal situations, while not ignoring what's happened in series two." Continue reading...