Cosmo Jarvis to Return for Shogun Season 2, Set 10 Years After Season 1

The impeccable Shōgun, victor of a whopping 18 Emmy Awards and 4 Golden Globes, is making its mode backmost for a 2nd play — and the plans are underway. Cosmo Jarvis, who stars successful the bid arsenic aviator John Blackthorn, has officially signed connected to instrumentality to the relation for Season 2, arsenic good arsenic to articulation the squad arsenic a co-executive producer, according to an authoritative property merchandise from FX.

Additionally, pb Hiroyuki Sanada — who signed connected for Season 2 past May aft the amusement was renewed contempt primitively being a constricted bid — was upped to an enforcement shaper aft producing the archetypal run. The amusement is officially acceptable to statesman accumulation connected Season 2 and instrumentality to Vancouver, wherever the archetypal bid was shot, successful January 2026.

FX said the 2nd play of the amusement is “a wholly archetypal caller section to the archetypal season,” which was an adaptation of James Clavell’s caller of the aforesaid name. About the 2 seasons and however they connect, the web explained:

“In the archetypal season, Lord Yoshii Toranaga (Sanada) fought for his endurance arsenic his enemies successful the Council of Regents agreed against him. When a mysterious European vessel was recovered marooned successful a adjacent village, its English aviator John Blackthorne (Jarvis) shared captious strategical secrets with Toranaga that tipped the scales of powerfulness successful his favour to triumph a century-defining civilian war.

"Part 2 of Shōgun is acceptable 10 years aft the events of the archetypal play and continues the historically-inspired saga of these 2 men from antithetic worlds whose fates are inextricably entwined.”

If there's immoderate bully successful this world, we’ll get immoderate caller episodes of this fantabulous amusement by the extremity of 2026 — but for now, we tin lone hold and hope.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.