The mystery has been solved, but “ The Gathering ” is far from done. “We would love a second season. I am just going to put it out there,” executive producer Laura Cotton tells Variety .
“We have great plans and the show’s premise already gives it a great potential in terms of a format. These characters have so far to go. They are drawn so beautifully and we want to see where they go next.
” Creator Helen Walsh would also like to return to her Merseyside community. “Something we didn’t get to explore in such a level of detail are their backstories. If we go into Season 2, that’s definitely something I would like to do.
The need to control is often a response to a loss, low self-esteem or trauma. So where does it really come from?” In six-part “The Gathering” – in competition at Monte-Carlo Television Festival and named one of Variety ’s MipTV Hot Picks back in April – promising gymnast Kelly ( Eva Morgan ) is attacked at an illegal rave. There are many suspects: among kids her age and among their parents.
Produced by World Productions, it was commissioned by Channel 4. “It started its life as a novel. I have a child that didn’t sleep at that time.
I thought: ‘This is going to take five, six years to finish.’ I also thought this was such a visually breathtaking world, especially the parkour and tumbling gymnastics elements. It’s really hard to depict that in writing,” says Walsh about her “expansive” show.
“I was lucky, because .
