Filming is now underway in Liverpool on the second series of BBC’s critically acclaimed drama, This City Is Ours.
Created and written by Stephen Butchard, the first outing became the BBC’s most watched new drama of the year to date, getting an average of 5.8m viewers. Almost 3m streamed the series finale ahead of its BBC One transmission in May.
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James Nelson-Joyce will return as Michael Kavanagh, alongside fellow returning cast members Hannah Onslow as Diana Williams, Michael’s partner, Jack McMullen as Jamie Phelan, Mike Noble as Banksey, Julie Graham as Elaine Phelan, widow of murdered gang leader Ronnie (Sean Bean), and Saoirse-Monica Jackson as Cheryl Crawford.
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Joining the cast of the Left Bank Pictures production are Shaun Evans (Until I Kill You, Endeavour) and Álvaro Morte (Money Heist, Immaculate, The Wheel of Time).
The drama will pick up where things were left at the end of the first series, with Michael and Diana arriving in Spain and getting dragged back into the fold.
The 8 x 60 minute production was commissioned by Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC Drama.
Butchard is the 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, and Chris Baugh (In Flight, Wreck), the series producer is Simon Maloney, and the block 2 producer is Nathan Juckes, both returning from series one.
