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If Doctor Who spin-off Class is eventually picked up for a second year, then creator Patrick Ness won’t be involved.

“I decided awhile back that, with unbelievable regret, I won’t be writing any more Class, even if a season 2 moves ahead,” he wrote on Twitter on June 4. “It has been the MOST amazing experience. I loved it, and I am so proud of the show and what we made. My heart just bursts with happy. But we should be filming right now. With the new cycles of Who, we’d pretty much need to be to be on the air before even 2019. But we’re not. And that’s just TV and how it goes! Not even the littlest bit bitter. What an amazing experience.”

The unusual scheduling decision by BBC 1 to run the show late night after the home entertainment release didn’t help the show’s chances of renewal, but Ness added, “If I’m honest, a season 2 has been a faint hope, but it’s a fact that BBC America LOVES the show, so who know? If so, I wish them wings!”

He also revealed that “(And if I HAD got a 2nd season: weeping angel civil war & PLANET, Quill has a dangerous son, Charlie & Matteusz shirtless wood chopping…)”