EXCLUSIVE: The BBC is returning for extra of The Gold.
We can reveal a second season of the gold heist drama has been ordered, based mostly on the notorious real-life occasions of the Brink’s-Mat theft and the decades-long chain of occasions that adopted.
Season one was for UK pubcaster the BBC and Paramount+. We perceive Paramount isn’t on board season 2.
We revealed the principle solid final yr in April, and returning solid Hugh Bonneville, Charlotte Spencer, Emun Elliott, Tom Cullen, Stefanie Martini and Sam Spruell are confirmed for season 2. Further casting is about to observe at a later date with filming set to start in January 2024. Season one additionally starred the likes of Jack Lowdon and Dominic Cooper.
SPOILER ALERT: The season 2 plot will observe what occurred to the half of the Brinks-Mat gold stolen within the daring 1983 raid, after police realise these they convicted didn’t have all of it.
Season 2 will discover what occurred to the opposite half, and the prison fortune it created. Synopsis reads: (*2*)
Season one launched on BBC One and BBC iPlayer within the UK. Its first episode took a complete of 8.7 million viewers, making it a top-drama new drama throughout platforms and channels, in keeping with the BBC.
The Gold author and government producer Neil Forsyth mentioned: “I am delighted that we have been given the opportunity to tell the rest of the Brink’s-Mat story, which sees the consequences of the robbery and its aftermath grow only more surprising, dramatic and far-reaching, both in Britain and around the world.”
Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC Drama, added: “We’re immensely proud to partner with Neil Forsyth and the team to continue the story of The Gold. Millions of viewers across the U.K. were enthralled with its gripping and confident exploration of the fallout from the notorious Brink’s-Mat robbery and, as we saw, there’s still so much more left for DCS Boyce and the team to uncover.”
Salt commissioned the six-part season two of The Gold. Tannadice Pictures, the three way partnership arrange by Forsyth and Objective Fiction, a part of All3Media’s Objective Media Group, makes the present in affiliation with All3Media International, which has worldwide gross sales rights.
Forsyth (Guilt, Eric, Ernie & Me) is the author, Patrick Harkins (Tin Star, Guilt) the director and Charlie Leech (Bounty Hunters, Lovesick) returns as producer. Executive producers are Forsyth and Ben Farrell for Tannadice Pictures, and Nick Lambon for the BBC.
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