James Graham ’s acclaimed detective series has nothing to do with Robin Hood. Despite the Sheriff of Nottingham making her debut in the new series, Sherwood is a gritty and powerful drama that puts a spotlight on the miners’ strikes of the 1980s and is loosely based on two real-life trade union murders from 2004. The upcoming second series is expected to further explore the themes that made the first so popular with its audience, such as family, loyalty and justice.
Set in the present day, viewers will be introduced to two new families who find themselves tangled in a complex web of deceit and betrayal. At the same time, a newly appointed Sheriff of Nottingham — who has been deliberately written as a young queer woman to “modernise” the series — finds herself fighting against a proposed new coal mine in the area. The cast is full of talented British actors who bring the story to life.
We take a look at characters both old and new, their actors, and where you might have seen them before. Sherwood’s main protagonist is detective Ian St Clair, a high-ranking police officer who is a “pillar of the community” and the one to investigate the murder that opens the show. When we join the characters at the start of the new series, Ian has left the police and is leading a new unit for the local council, which brings together all of the social services.
David Morrissey has spoken about his love for the character, telling the BBC : “I thought he was pretty wonderful an.