Oscar winner Olivia Colman (The Favourite) will return for the highly-anticipated second series of the BBC series The Night Manager alongside Tom Hiddleston, it has been announced.
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The Oscar-winning actor will reprise her role as intelligence officer Angela Burr.
Inspired by John le Carre
Inspired by the characters in John le Carré’s best-selling novel, the second series will be written by show creator David Farr and led by BAFTA-winning director Georgi Banks-Davies, best known for I Hate Suzie and Paper Girls.
The hugely popular 2016 show had a starry cast, Elizabeth Debicki, Tom Hollander, David Harewood and Hugh Laurie.
For the second instalment, alongside Colman, Hiddleston will reprise his role as the former military officer Jonathan Pine.
They will be joined by returning cast members Noah Jupe, Alistair Petrie and Douglas Hodge.
The first season, written by Farr and directed by Susanne Bier, followed Hiddleston’s Pine, the night manager of a luxury Cairo hotel and ex-British soldier, who is hired by an intelligence officer to infiltrate villain David Roper’s inner circle.
The series ended on a cliffhanger with Roper and his team arrested before the police van is taken over by arms buyers
It was aired on AMC in the US, and prompted multiple subsequent le Carré adaptations from The Ink Factory, which is run by the author’s sons Simon and Stephen Cornwell.
Plot details season two are being kept under wraps, but the return of several cast members in the orbit of villain Roper suggests that the fallout from his scheming will carry into the new series.
Laurie, who played Roper, is among the executive producers listed for season two, but there has been no confirmation over whether he’s returning in an acting capacity.
Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC Drama, said in a statement: “Olivia Colman’s award-winning role as Angela Burr in the first series of The Night Manager was unforgettable and we are over the moon that she is back alongside Tom Hiddleston.”
“We have such a strong cast and with Alistair Petrie, Douglas Hodge, Michael Nardone and Noah Jupe also returning, and filming starting in London, the second series of The Night Manager promises to provide even more drama, glamour, intrigue and suspense.”
