BBC Sherwood series two: Is it based on a true story?

Drama fans rejoice, Sherwood is back on BBC One and a whole new host of characters join familiar faces in the six-part drama that follows a Nottinghamshire community we first met in the 2022 smash hit. 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), and Sharlene Whyte (Stephen, Small Axe).

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. It's "something [a drama] that digs down into big political and social and historical themes, and tries to understand our post-industrial legacy and how the past and the present are always in dialogue with each other," as described by writer and creator James Graham who also heads up this second series. As always you might need a refresher and also might like to know whether Sherwood is a true story.

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