Jeremy Piven as Harry Selfridge
ITV have announced today that Mr Selfridge will be returning for a third series, consisting of ten new episodes.
Filming of that series is to begin in April, following the major success of the show not only in the UK, but the US and internationally.
Inspired by the life of American entrepreneur and lothario Harry Gordon Selfridge, the drama follows his rise as one of the biggest businessmen in the world as his Oxford Street store becomes a much-loved institution.
Series two of the drama is currently screening on Sunday nights on ITV, and a recent episode even featured a cameo appearance from Alfie Boe, who played Richard Chapman - an old friend of Lady Mae Loxley who sang at Selfridge's charity concert to raise war effort money.
Filming will once again take place on location in Greater London with a replica of the 1909 store being recreated in a former carpet warehorse. The shop exterior will be filmed in the historyic Dockyard Chatham in Kent.
Dominic Barlow is to produce the series, and Kate Lewis will executively produce for ITV Studios alongside Kate Brooke and Kate O'Riordan, while Rebecca Eaton produces for WGBH.
“We’re delighted to commission a third series of Mr Selfridge,” said Steve November, ITV Director of Drama. “It’s been very pleasing to see how the audience have reacted to Mr Selfridge and the vibrant and inspirational world the production team have created.”
Kate Lewis, executive producer for ITV Studios said: “We have some surprises in store for an audience in this third series. You only have to walk down Oxford St today to know that Selfridges Department Store continued to be successful, but for its founder, Harry Selfridge, things were very different. His story was a rollercoaster ride that ended rather tragically. We pick up Series 3 in 1919, the point at which his life really begins to unravel.”
Mr Selfridge continues this Sunday, 9pm on ITV.