It won’t exactly be a second series of The Young Pope, it will no longer feature Jude Law as the controversial young pope and the cast will be different, but according to sources close to the production team, some elements and characters from the first series will be back.

The highly-anticipated and closely guarded secret that is the new TV series set in the Vatican by Paolo Sorrentino, who won an Oscar for The Great Beauty [+], will be based on anthological series of the likes of Fargo and True Detective. Filming is due to begin at the end of 2018 in Italy, probably after Sorrentino has completed Loro, the film about Silvio Berlusconi starring the one and only Toni Servillo, filming on which is set to begin this summer.