Venom star and professional grumbler Tom Hardy has admitted that he's excited to be back for season 2 of Taboo.

Hardy is reprising his role as James Delaney for the hit BBC drama, with the sophomore season set to get "dark" and "dirty".

Hardy said in a statement: "We are grateful and excited to continue our relationship with the BBC and FX in contributing towards British drama. Fantastic news."

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Creator Stephen Knight teased what's to come in the second season, saying: "James Delaney will continue to explore many realities as he takes his band of misfits to a new world, thanks to FX and the BBC, partners who could not be more suited to collaborating in ground breaking work."

And director Ridley Scott said: "We're thrilled people want to know what happens next and that the BBC and FX are up for more adventures with the devil Delaney and the league of the damned.

"Along with our international distributors, Sonar Entertainment, the BBC and FX have been great partners, supporting Taboo at every stage so it could be the dark, dirty brute of a drama that it is."

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Speaking to Entertainment Weekly last year, Hardy teased the upcoming second season.

"We're onto the next stage," he said. "The key really is Colonnade. When he says, 'We are Americans,' James is very ambiguous with how much information he's going to give. In his mind, you will know when the time is right."

Asked if the show would be getting another season, he replied: "Oh god, yeah."

However, In June last year, Knight said that there's a definite endgame to the supernatural drama, with the series set to end after a third season.

"I can feel the three acts. The first was 'the escape', the second will be 'the journey', and the third will be 'the arrival', and that'll be it," he told HuffPost UK.

Taboo series 2 will air on the BBC.

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