A Spokesperson for Victoria Says "There Are No Plans Presently to Film"
Season three of Victoria aired in the U.S. in January of 2019, but the show's fate beyond that last chapter is unclear. In July 2021, a spokesperson for the series revealed:
"There are no plans presently to film Victoria, but that's not to say we won't revisit the series with the production team at a later date."
Thus far, nothing has been officially confirmed about future seasons of the ITV and PBS series, but we're certainly keeping our fingers crossed.
Here's everything we know about what's next for Victoria:
In the past, showrunner Daisy Goodwin has said she hopes the show will run for five seasons.
"We couldn’t do it after she dies, so I’ll say there’ll be five series," she said, according to The Sun.
And she's already writing season four.
"I am working on series four at the moment and that's going to be an absolute humdinger, because... well, you can go to Wikipedia to find out!" she told Digital Spy. "Somebody dies and someone new comes on the scene, so there is a lot to play with there. I've really got back into it and am really enjoying writing it."
She's said it will be the show's "darkest season yet."
'I’m not giving the plot away; anyone can look up the cataclysm to come on Wikipedia," she said, according to the Daily Mail.
Masterpiece PBS's Susanne Simpson recently told T&C that the show is on "hiatus."
It's on hiatus right now and we don't have a time period, exactly, when it might go into production. So right now all we can say is it's on hiatus," the new executive producer of Masterpiece shared.
"It's a program, obviously, we loved. Jenna Coleman is absolutely the best and she's very busy and so we'll hope that it might come back."
It's unclear if Jenna Coleman will continue to play Queen Victoria.
During an interview with Radio Times, the star of the series admitted that there will "come a point” when she can't play the monarch anymore, as she will be too young for the role. Coleman also revealed that from now on, the powers that be are "deciding on a series-by-series basis."
"In the next one she's starting to look a bit more matronly, she's had six or seven children, so a bit wider, bit more of a bust, the make-up is more drawn," she explained. "But there will come a point in her story when no amount of prosthetic make-up or me lowering my voice will be convincing enough."
All that said, fans of Coleman's performance shouldn't be too concerned.
"I think we’ve got quite a long way to go before we need to re-cast Jenna; we’re moving quite slowly through the 1840s," Goodwin reportedly said at the BFI & Radio Times Television Festival.
"We haven’t even caught up with her real age," she said, "so I think Jenna will be on our screens for some time to come."
More recently, Coleman said she is interested in continuing to play the monarch.
"We are in the process of discussing it at the moment and timelines. The problem is there's too much story. Effectively I could play this part until I am well into my 60s," Coleman said.
"But obviously, at the moment, there is only a certain age that I could take it up to. unless I am in prosthetics every day for hours on end. I am working it out."
But her co-star Tom Hughes would like to finish out the run as Albert.
Given Albert's lifespan in comparison to Victoria, it's a bit more realistic that Hughes could plan the royal until his death on the series.
"If there’s an appetite, then it would be really nice to finish the story," he recently told Collider. "But, that isn’t down to me. That’s up to someone else."
Season three brings viewers up to the Great Exhibition.
It's a bit early to start talking plot points for an unconfirmed fourth season, but given that season three highlights the Great Exhibition, it's safe to say that the events of season four would likely take place after 1851.
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