The BBC has released a new trailer for the much anticipated second series of hit drama, This City is Ours.
Created and written by Stephen Butchard, the drama is produced by Left Bank Pictures.
The first outing was BAFTA-nominated and attracted an average audience of 6.2m, with the first episode totalling 8.3m – more than quadrupling the overnights of 1.9m.
All episodes of the new series will be released on 25th October on iPlayer, with the show airing on BBC One on Sunday and Monday nights.
Where the first series was set around the disintegration of a Liverpool crime gang, the second picks up as Michael Kavanagh (James Nelson-Joyce) and his partner arrive in Spain. But back in the North West, tensions bubble amongst the remaining members of the gang.
New cast members include Shaun Evans (Until I Kill You, Endeavour) as former gangster Ozzie Thompson, recently out of prison, and Álvaro Morte (Money Heist, Immaculate, The Wheel of Time) as Felipe Guzman, member of the Colombian cartel.
Returning cast also seen in the trailer are Jack McMullen as Jamie Phelan, Mike Noble as Banksey, Julie Graham as Elaine Phelan, widow of murdered gang leader Ronnie (Sean Bean), Laura Aikman as Rachel Duffy, Kevin Harvey as Bobby Duffy, Saoirse-Monica Jackson as Cheryl Crawford, Darci Shaw as Melissa Sullivan, Adam Abbou as Freddie, and Bobby Schofield as Bonehead.
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This City is Ours is an 8×60 minute drama commissioned for the BBC by Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC Drama. The first series brought £9m into the local economy according to the Liverpool Film Office.
Butchard is lead writer, with Robbie O’Neill writing a further episode. The executive producers are Andy Harries, Rebecca Hodgson and Sian McWilliams for Left Bank Pictures, Stephen Butchard, Saul Dibb, and Jo McClellan for the BBC.
The directors are Saul Dibb, returning as lead director from series one, John Hayes (Dublin Murders, Nightsleeper) also returning from series one, and Chris Baugh (In Flight, Wreck). The series producer is Simon Maloney, and the block two producer is Nathan Juckes, both returning from series one.
Sony Pictures Television will distribute the series internationally.
This City is Ours was filmed in and around Liverpool, with additional filming in Spain.
