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BBC One's Requiem will not return for a second series

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From Digital Spy

The ending to BBC One's spooky supernatural series Requiem left us with plenty of questions, but now it seems they'll go unanswered.

The series, starring Lydia Wilson as haunted cellist Matilda Grey, will not be returning for a second series, Digital Spy can confirm.

Wilson told us that while the ending of the first series "did leave the door ajar a bit", Requiem is "a one-and-done".

A representative for the show – which streamed internationally on Netflix – also confirmed that there is "no second series planned".

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Photo credit: BBC

Last year, writer/creator Kris Mrksa told DS that he had done "development work" on a follow-up series, with future episodes "plotted out in quite a bit of detail".

"I always imagined a second half to this story," Mrksa said. "The end point of this [first] season has always been the halfway mark at most.

"It's always been in my head that there could potentially be a second season. There's always been a hunger in me to keep telling stories about these characters."

Despite this, lead actress Wilson told us that she "never found out" what was being planned for the second series. "I know that there were shadowy rooms with storylines [being developed]," she said. "I'll never know!"

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Photo credit: BBC

Requiem followed Matilda who, after the suicide of her mother, discovers a link to a Welsh town where a toddler disappeared in 1994, leading her to question her very identity.

It eventually transpired that when Matilda – real name Carys – was younger, she was abducted by a cult trying to bring an archangel ("a shard of the divine") into the world.

Though she was rescued, Matilda found herself back in the arms of the cult as an adult and, to save her step-brother, willingly let herself get taken over, with the archangel then slaughtering all the members of the cult.

Last we saw her, Matilda was recovering in hospital, but remained under the control of the archangel whose goal remained, and will forever remain, unknown...

Lydia Wilson stars in Flack, beginning Thursday, February 21 at 10pm on W.


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