“It’s not gone,” FX chairman John Landgraf told reporters at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, California, on Friday. “Noah Hawley, who has become quite a busy bee… has told us that he has an idea that excited me enormously for a fourth cycle of Fargo and the plan is to have that ready in 2019. The anticipation is there will be another cycle of Fargo in 2019.”

Added Hawley added jokingly: “I’m finally doing the Space Station Fargo, it’s going to be amazing.” Then the writer-producer got more serious: “Unfortunately, I can’t really tell you anything about that. I will tell you the next thing you’ll see of Fargo is going to be a book that looks at the [previous] three seasons with scripts, interviews and everything that I’m doing with [my publisher] Grand Central. We’re working on that now, so hopefully that’ll come out before the fourth [season]. It’s still early for me. I really love that world. But it’s still very much a question for me of making sure there’s something left to say about it, and balancing tone. I never want it to be something that people go, ‘Oh that thing, it’s the accents and the funny crime show.’ Yeah, it’s still very much a work in progress.”