Will there be another season of Top Boy and what has Netflix said about series 4?
TOP Boy has made an unbelievable comeback with season three on Netflix, and after the success of its return, it’s believed that the streaming giant is already making preparations for another season of the gritty drama.
But what exactly have the show’s bosses let slip about a fourth series and when can fans expect to see it on Netflix? Here’s what we know so far…
Will there a fourth series of Top Boy?
Top Boy’s showrunner Ronan Bennett has confirmed that he’s currently in talks with Netflix regarding a second series under the streaming giant.
In an interview with Metro, he revealed: “We want to do a new season and we’re talking to Netflix about it.”
Ronan went on to discuss how working on the new season of Top Boy was an incredible experience, adding that all of the ideas and concepts turned out exceptionally well.
It’s not common that ideas and concepts written on paper can translate so effortlessly well on screen, but given his own words, it seems Ronan has found his dream team, who truly understand the core message of the drama.
“We’re incredibly proud of what we’ve all achieved with the new season,” he gushed.
“Sometimes you write something for screen and it just doesn’t come out as well as you’d hoped even though all the individual parts are good, but somehow when they’re all together they just don’t gel. This is different.”
Talking about Top Boy’s newest chapter, Ronan continued: ‘I think the new season is brilliant, I really do. We don’t want to sit on our laurels.
When asked about the future of Top Boy and what fans can expect to see, it seems there are a number of ideas that the show’s creators will want to explore in future episodes.
“We have our core and we have the characters and the world, but we also want to refresh it with staying true to what our fans love about the show, but also expanding the world and surprising them.
“That’s the ambition going forward.”
Why is the new run of Top Boy called season one on Netflix?
It’s being reported that Netflix wanted to brand the new episodes from what we thought was season three as Top Boy.
This evidently means that the previous two seasons are separate from the third run, which is why the streaming firm has decided to label those as Top Boy: Summerhouse.
Summerhouse refers back to the Summerhouse Estate, the location which characters such as Dushane, Sully and Dris reside.
The original series premiered on Channel 4 in 2011, but following its second run in 2013, the television network decided to axe the series, leaving fans in shock.
How does Top Boy season 3 end?
The award-winning show originally aired on Channel 4 from 2011 to 2013 and attracted an international audience thanks to its hard-hitting story lines about life on a London council estate.
Series three picks up as Dushane (Ashley Walters) returns from exile to his home in London to reclaim his throne in the highly lucrative drug market.
He teams up with Sully (Kane Robinson), his spiritual brother, partner and sometime rival who is also returning to the same streets after his own form of exile – prison – comes to an end.
Awaiting them both is Jamie (Michael Ward), the young, hungry and ruthless gang leader whose ambitions leave no place for Dushane and Sully.
The season concludes with Dushane making Jamie an offer he can’t refuse – join forces with him and Sully or spend 20 years in prison.
However, what the Summer House gangster doesn’t know is that the police are closing in on him and his gang – and it looks like it’s only a matter of time before his time on the estate is over for good.
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How can you watch series one and two of Top Boy?
If the current series is leaving you wanting to re-watch the first two series then you’re in luck because you can!
All you need to do is head over to Netflix – where the current series is being shown – to get your fix.
And all the episodes of the cult show are there and ready to binge-watch, so enjoy!