Will There Be More 'Jack Wright'? Shocking Finale Leaves Fans Hanging

The rise of "Prestige TV" has had multiple effects on the entertainment landscape, most of which have been positive developments. High-quality literature, some of which was never considered a possibility for TV adaptations prior to the successes of Game of Thrones and Outlander in the early 2010s, began making its way to the small screen. The invisible class system in Hollywood that placed "movie actors" over "TV actors" began to break down as more big-screen actors started taking the newly created meaty TV roles. However, there has been one major downside: the standard TV executive has been trained to believe that, when a show is a hit, it gets renewed, whether there's more story to tell or not.

The most well-known of the "limited series" that suddenly found themselves with a second season and no more novel left to cover is the Liane Moriarty series Big Little Lies, the second season of which wound up being an absolute disaster. Other series have similarly struggled — The Handmaid's Tale was heading off the rails until author Margaret Atwood stepped in with a sequel novel, giving the series an endpoint to aim for; Game of Thrones crumpled the moment it ran out of book structure to work from.

However, this has also given rise to a new category, the "surprise it's not a limited series!" show, where the biggest twist is that the series finale is merely a season finale, and viewers are forced to wait until the series is renewed, lest the last shot be a title card reading "To Be Continued." That's what series creator Chris Lang has done with his not-so-limited-after-all series I, Jack Wright, which concluded its run on UKTV and BritBox this week with precisely that. However, neither BritBox nor UKTV has said whether there will be a second season of the show.... at least not yet.