Fargo, the Emmy-nominated television miniseries inspired by the Coen brothers’ cult film, has been renewed for a second season that will feature a new storyline and characters, cable network FX said.

The inaugural 10-episode series filmed in Canada received 18 Emmy nominations and is frontrunner for the best TV miniseries award. It also earned acting nods for Billy Bob Thornton, Martin Freeman, Allison Tolman and Colin Hanks.

Fargo earned more Emmy nominations than any single show in the history of the basic cable network, owned by Twenty-First Century Fox Inc., and this year was the second-ranked show in the number of total nominations for the August 25 Emmys, behind HBO’s medieval fantasy Game of Thrones.

The TV version of Fargo, which airs internationally, is a reimagining of the blood-soaked black comedy film of the same name by brothers Joel and Ethan Coen.

The miniseries features a different ‘true crime’ story and characters but a large dose of frigid Minnesota and Midwestern folksiness. The Coen brothers are producers but remained largely in the background of the production run by Noah Hawley.

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