Is The Serpent coming back?

The Serpent ended on January 1, 2021, after its single season aired on BBC iPlayer. The series concluded its story with the eighth episode, which was also its finale.

The show was a drama and crime series based on the true story of Charles Sobhraj, a con man, escape artist, thief, master of disguise, and psychopath. It depicted Sobhraj's involvement in the unsolved murders of up to 20 young Western travelers across India, Thailand, and Nepal during 1975 and 1976. The series focused on the efforts of Herman Knippenberg, a Dutch diplomat in Bangkok, who unwittingly became entangled in Sobhraj's web of crime, leading to a chase across the Asian Hippie Trail in its final days.

The Serpent starred Tahar Rahim as Charles Sobhraj, Jenna Coleman as Marie-Andrée Leclerc, and Billy Howle as Herman Knippenberg. The series had a runtime of 60 minutes per episode and received a rating of 6.8 on TVMaze.