The Night Manager series 3 release date: Tom Hiddleston reveals future of slick thriller after shocking end to S2
Please don't make it nine years between series again!
The Night Manager series 2 came to a devastatingly brutal end this weekend, and BBC One has to give us a series 3 to right the wrongs.
The latest episodes saw old adversaries Jonathan Pine and Richard Roper go head to head again – after Roper came back from the ‘dead’.
Arms dealer Roper was up to his old tricks again, this time attempting to facilitate a coup in Colombia – with the backing of British intelligence. And Jonathan Pine was at his heels, trying to stop him, whilst looking fabulously stylish at the same time naturally!
But, unlike series 1, things didn’t quite work out for Pine. And the shocking ending left viewers needing answers. Here’s everything we know about series 3 of The Night Manager.
***Warning: spoilers from The Night Manager series 2 ahead***
Will there be a series 3 of The Night Manager?
The BBC has not yet confirmed a series 3 of The Night Manager, but leading actor Tom Hiddleston certainly has!
Even without his confirmation, though, it was a no-brainer. Like the 2016 series, the second season delivered the drama and then some. Despite a few “lame plot holes”, fans fully embraced the ride.
And series 2 left so many loose ends, another run was inevitable. While the Beeb has NOT officially confirmed more episodes, leading star Tom Hiddleston let slip that a series 3 is on the cards…
Tom Hiddleston reveals future of The Night Manager
Appearing on This Morning (on Thursday, January 29, 2026), Tom told hosts Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard that a series 3 is incoming.
He said: “I can reveal that there will be a series 3 of The Night Manager. There’s going to be more. We always constructed this series [two] as the beginning of a 12 episode story. That gave us greater scope in terms of imagining where the story might go, knowing that we had another season to come.”
He added: “We like trilogies. There’s something satisfying about them narratively. And you will not have to wait another 10 years. It will be sooner than that. It’s booked in, and we’re going to do it. If we have to wait another 10 years, I’ll be 55 and I don’t know how much running or jumping onto motorbikes I’ll be able to do.”
Why we need a series 3
The ending of The Night Manager series 2 left us broken. This time, good had not triumphed over evil. Far from it. Roper was riding high, with quite the death toll on his conscience. You know, if he had a conscience.
While Jonathan Pine managed to bring Roper down in series 1, series 2 saw the tables turned. So there needs to be a third series to settle it once and for all.
Series 3 will pit Roper and Pine together once again – this time on UK soil. Much as we love to hate Trickie Dickie, he has to be stopped. Meanwhile, Pine needs to expose Mayra Cavendish. We want justice for Angela Burr!
Release date for The Night Manager series 3
Fans of The Night Manager series 1 had to wait a whooping nine years for another series. After the success of the 2016 run, it took until 2026 for new episodes to arrive – which they did, accompanied by much fanfare – on New Year’s Day 2026.
Explaining the delay, Tom Hiddleston said: “We had to wait for the right story. The first series was based on the novel by John Le Carré, but there was no novel to adapt [for a series 2]. We wanted it to feel as contemporary as the first one did.”
Although we don’t have a release date for series 3 yet, we do know that the wait won’t be another nine years. And we also know it will pit “opposites” Jonathan Pine and Richard Roper against each other again.
