Netflix has confirmed that supernatural thriller Stranger Things will return next year for a second series.
Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings told the Guardian last month that the streaming service “would be dumb” not to recommission the show, which was the US watercooler hit of the summer.
Nine episodes have been commissioned, with creators Matt and Ross Duffer returning.
Stranger Things stars Winona Ryder as a distraught mother searching for her missing son, David Harbour as a smalltown police chief and a cast of relative unknowns as a group of Dungeons & Dragons-playing schoolkids, and a strange girl with unusual powers named Eleven.
The show played on nostalgia for the films of the 80s watched by the Duffer brothers, who were born in 1984.
No casting details have been announced for the new series. However, the Duffer brothers have said it will take place a year after the first, in 1984, in part to accommodate the fact its young cast have grown.
They have also said it will be a sequel rather than a completely different story, and hinted that characters including Eleven will return.
Variety magazine has reported that the first series was Netflix’s third most-watched programme of all time.
