The television show "Fargo" had a highly successful first season on the FX channel and wil return for a second season in the fall of next year.

Fans of the show who were drawn to it to catch actor Billy Bob Thornton will have to settle instead for the show's heralded writing, unfortunately, because Thornton won't be returning to the show in the second season. The show has already made history by earning 18 Emmy nominations.

"I think we needed Billy Bob [to launch the show] but we don't need somebody next year," John Landgraf, the CEO of FX Networks told Entertainment Weekly. The new season will feature a new cast, and be set in a different time period. There will be a new true crime story that will play out over 10 episodes, according to InsideTV. 

But rumors online suggest the next season will look into the  explore the Sioux Falls incident, which was referenced in the show.

During a press tour show producer and writer Noah Hawley said this about the show, according to IMDB.net: "The story begins with 33-year-old Lou having freshly returned from Vietnam and wrestling with living in the pre-Reagan era, in a time the writer characterizes as "the best of America versus the worst of America."

In this past era, Lou Solverson is a state police officer and his father-in-law is Laverne's chief lawman. As for the nature of the new "true crime" to be explored in season two, Hawley hinted that "The Vietnam War came home with people, and Lou Solverson thought he'd left the war behind only to find out that it has come home with him." 

The show films in Canada, but is based on true-crime like tales set in Fargo, Minnesota. Like the dark comedy film that bears the same name, "Fargo" the television show also tried to capture the feeling of down home Minnesota life. 

Plotlines revolve around blackmail and murder, which will no doubt continue into next season.

A a review of the show in New York Magazine notes, "Episodes get incrementally weirder, stronger, and more original, to the point that you forget to measure this Fargo against its namesake ... and simply enjoy the odd, sour, frightening, occasionally splendid thing in front of you."