Athletic journalist shares what he’s heard from Elland Rd about potential second Amazon series
It seems unlikely that the Leeds United documentary Take Us Home will get a second series, according to The Athletic journalist Phil Hay.
Leeds fans tuned into Amazon Prime in their droves last year when the first season of the documentary aired, showing the Whites’ failed bid for promotion from the Championship in Marcelo Bielsa’s first year in charge.
Amazon have had their camera crew at Elland Road and Thorp Arch this season, suggesting that a second series could be on the cards.
However ex-Yorkshire Evening Post journalist Hay is not optimistic, saying that he’s heard noises from inside Elland Road that suggests there are doubts.
“It remains to be seen what happens with this,” said Hay in a Q&A session on The Athletic’s website after being asked if there is a second season in the making.
“It isn’t off the table completely and it might be that the coronavirus gives it the narrative and the story it needs (assuming the season actually finishes).
“It’s not that there hasn’t been any filming done for it – the cameras have just been far less present than they were last season and there was doubt at Elland Road about whether series two will follow. A lot depends on how Amazon feel. We’ll see.”
In the first season of Take Us Home, there was plenty of entertainment.
Although fans had to go through the agony of watching the club’s promotion bid fail in the playoff loss to Derby County, it was interesting to get a behind-the-scenes look at the way the club works.
Spygate was one of the biggest dramas of season one and it’s not as if there won’t be anything to document in a potential season two with the Kiko Casilla racism ban and the current coronavirus-enforced suspension.
Plus, it could all end in promotion to the Premier League.
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