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Q: What’s Tom Hiddleston up to post-”Loki,” and is it more “Night Manager”?

A: After years of saying maybe, Tom Hiddleston (“The Avengers,” 2012) is finally saying yes: there will be another season of “The Night Manager.” There will be two, in fact. BBC, which produced and aired the show in the U.K. (it aired on AMC in North America) officially announced in April that it would be producing two more seasons.

A few days later, Hiddleston confirmed on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” that it was happening, he would be involved, and they would be working from a whole new story.

That latter bit is necessary because the first season — originally intended as a miniseries — was based on the novel of the same name by the great spy novelist John le Carré, and it told the whole story. The next seasons will need to come up with new exploits for Hiddleston’s character, the hotel manager of the show’s title, who in the first season became a reluctant spy to take down a genteel arms dealer (Hugh Laurie, “House”).

The lack of source material was one obstacle to getting more seasons made, but the other was Hiddleston’s schedule. Because as popular as “The Night Manager” was — and it was, earning huge ratings and numerous awards — Hiddleston was committed at the same time to an even more popular screen phenomenon: the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).

His villainous character, Loki, who first appeared in the megahit 2011 film “Thor,” had become a central player in the MCU, including the Avengers films and, eventually, his own show, “Loki,” on Disney+. Though you can never say never with fantasy properties, the second season of “Loki,” released last November, seems to have been the end. Hiddleston, at least, seems to think so. He said on “The Tonight Show” that it was “the conclusion to six films, and 12 episodes, and 14 years of my life.”