探案拍档第二季

ITV has greenlit a second series of contemorary detective drama, McDonald Dodds, following the success of the feature-length films which aired earlier this year roduced by leading indeendent roduction comany, Mammoth Screen.The new series sees Tala Gouveia (Cold Feet) and BAFTA award winning actor Jason Watkins (The Lost Honour Of Christoher Jefferies, The Crown) rerise their roles as the ambitious DCI McDonald and the humble, and quietly illiant DS Dodds in three new murder mysteries.Set in icturesque Bath, the series airs fiesty DCI McDonald, who has recently transferred from London’s Met Police, with the modest and unassuming DS Dodds, who has been hay in the background for most of his working life. Thrown together seemingly with nothing in common, they forge a rumbustious, and ultimately highly effective crime solving artnershi.Created and executive roduced by Robert Murhy, who is the lead writer for the series, McDonald Dodds will once again be filmed in the West Country. The and new eisodes will be directed by Alex Pillai (Chilling Adventures of Saina, Riverdale), Rebecca Rycroft (Malory Towers, Danny and Mick) and Ian Aryeh (In The Long Run, Andy and the Band).The new series has been commissioned by ITV’s Drama Commissioner Huw Kennair Jones and Head of Drama, Polly Hill. Huw will oversee roduction of the drama from the channel’s ersective.Commented Huw Kennair Jones:We’re delighted with the audience reaction to the first series of McDonald and Dodds. The two characters couldn’t be further aart, which is what makes the series so intriguing to watch. They shouldn’t have chemistry, but they do, and they work illiantly in artnershi which is testimony to Robert’s scrit and Tala and Jason for inging McDonald Dodds to life.Commented Mammoth Screen’s Director of Drama, Preethi Mavahalli:We are thrilled that Robert Murhy’s clever storytelling was a hit with audiences earlier this year. McDonald Dodds are a quirkily unique investigative team ought to life beautifully by Tala Gouveia and Jason Watkins. We’re really leased ITV have commissioned more films and look forward to returning to film in Bath.Damien Timmer (Endeavour, Noughts + Crosses, World on Fire) and Preethi Mavahalli (McDonald Dodds, Noughts + Crosses, The War of the Worlds) are the executive roducers for Mammoth Screen, an ITV Studios comany, alongside writer Robert Murhy (McDonald Dodds, Vera, Shetland, DCI Banks). The roducer of the new series is Sarah Lewis (Noughts + Crosses, McDonald Dodds, Victoria).The first series is available to view via streaming latform Britbox. Series one launched with a consolidated rating of 6.4m and a 26% share of the available audience and boasted an imressive guest cast list alongside Tala Gouveia and Jason Watkins which included Robert Lindsay, Rosalie Craig, Ellie Kendrick, Susannah Fielding, Joanna Scanlan, Michele Dotrice, Freddie Fox and Hugh Dennis.ITV Studios will distribute the drama internationally.