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A second series of Happy Valley is in the planning stages, creator Sally Wainwright has confirmed.
Wainwright told Radio Times that there is "potential" for another run, though she is yet to receive the official nod from BBC One.
"It's something that I hope we'll be able to do again," she said. "There isn't officially a series two. But it's certainly got the potential. I've some tentative ideas for a whole new story for Catherine, Clare and Ryan."
The writer also responded to accusations that Happy Valley contained "gratuitous" violence, branding the show's critics "naive".
"Gratuitous violence is what you see on video games, Game of Thrones or - from what I've heard - things like Luther," she argued. "There, you don't even know who the victim is and it's just a body on a slab in a morgue.
"The violence in Happy Valley was about women who we knew and cared for. And that was the whole point."
The first series of Happy Valley climaxed last night on BBC One, pulling in an audience of 6.3m viewers.