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Q: Will there be another season of the miniseries "Sons of Liberty"? It was entertaining and historical!

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Adam Thomlison / TV Media

The short answer is that nobody knows. As you say yourself, "Sons of Liberty" was produced as a miniseries, which means there was no commitment to more at the time, but that the option is open. It also means that, if the producers do decide to make another series of some sort, they're not committed to any kind of timeline the way a regular series would be.

"I don't know if there'll be another part," actor Jason O'Mara told TheHDRoom.com, "but it would be interesting to see how it all plays out."

Of course, he means specifically how the producers and writers of the History show would tell it, since of course we already have a rough idea of how the American War of Independence "plays out." And though the series takes some liberties (ha!) with the actual material, it sticks to the major historical points.

O'Mara played George Washington. This was before he became the country's first president, of course, when he was a soldier: first in the colonial British army and later as a general with the American rebels.

If there is another season, it won't be any time soon. The three-episode miniseries aired in January, there's been no word of anything new since, and many of the actors have gone on to other commitments.

O'Mara is one of them. He's slated to play yet another American president, this time Ulysses S. Grant, in another miniseries, "To Appomattox" (if it can ever get its funding together -- the producers have turned to the crowd-funding service Kickstarter to get backing).

Ben Barnes, who played Samuel Adams in "Sons of Liberty," is part of the ensemble cast of HBO's upcoming sci-fi/western series "Westworld."

Jimmy Akingbola, who only appeared in one installment of "Sons of Liberty" as former slave Peter Salem, has landed one of the highest-profile roles of anyone on the cast. He's signed on to play comic book villain Baron Reiter, also known as Baron Blitzkrieg, in the hit CW drama "Arrow."

 

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