Sherwood series two starts this bank holiday as the Nottinghamshire-based drama returns two years after the first six-part instalment in 2022. The first series saw the elements of a gripping police procedural (a whodunnit and why?) balanced brilliantly with age-old tensions surrounding the miners' strike and the Nottinghamshire pits not, on the whole, joining in with the strike action back in the early 1980s. The second series is likely to explore the same themes but with a new story and characters.
David Morrissey, Lorraine Ashbourne, Lesley Manville and Perry Fitzpatrick are just some of the original stars to return as the second season kicks off on Sunday, August 25, at 9pm. New faces joining them include Monica Dolan (Black Mirror, The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe), David Harewood (Homeland, The Night Manager), Robert Lindsay (Maleficent 2, My Family), Stephen Dillane (Game of Thrones, Vigil), Sharlene Whyte (Stephen, Small Axe). READ MORE : All the huge Netflix, BBC and Channel 4 shows filmed in Wales 2024 READ NEXT : How to catch a glimpse of the stars as Gavin & Stacey to begin filming in Barry What happened in series one of Sherwood? Following the murder of staunch trade union man Gary Jackson (Alun Armstrong) theories that his death, shockingly by arrow through the head in episode one, had to do with the 1984 miner's strike were shot down by the murderer, Jackson's next door neighbour Scott Rowley (Adam Hugill).
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