EXCLUSIVE: The BBC is returning for more of The Gold.
We can reveal a second season of the gold heist drama has been ordered, based on the infamous real-life events of the Brink’s-Mat robbery and the decades-long chain of events that followed.
Season was for UK pubcaster the BBC and Paramount+. We understand Paramount isn’t on board season 2.
We revealed the main cast last year in April, and returning cast Hugh Bonneville, Charlotte Spencer, Emun Elliott, Tom Cullen, Stefanie Martini and Sam Spruell are confirmed for season 2. Further casting is set to follow at a later date with filming set to begin in January 2024. Season one also starred the likes of Jack Lowdon and Dominic Cooper.
SPOILER ALERT: The season 2 plot will follow what happened to the half of the Brinks-Mat gold stolen in the daring 1983 raid, after police realise those they convicted didn’t have all of it.
Season 2 will explore what happened to the other half, and the criminal fortune it created. Synopsis reads: “As the police investigation continues, it becomes a tense, high-stakes journey into international money laundering and organised crime, while the police embark on dramatic manhunts as they desperately try to solve the longest and most expensive investigation in the history of the Metropolitan Police.”
Season one launched on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the UK. Its first episode took a total of 8.7 million viewers, making it a top-drama new drama across platforms and channels, according to the BBC.
The Gold writer and executive producer Neil Forsyth said: “I am delighted that we have been given the opportunity to tell the rest of the Brink’s-Mat story, which sees the consequences of the robbery and its aftermath grow only more surprising, dramatic and far-reaching, both in Britain and around the world.”
Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC Drama, added: “We’re immensely proud to partner with Neil Forsyth and the team to continue the story of The Gold. Millions of viewers across the U.K. were enthralled with its gripping and confident exploration of the fallout from the notorious Brink’s-Mat robbery and, as we saw, there’s still so much more left for DCS Boyce and the team to uncover.”
Salt commissioned the six-part season two of The Gold. Tannadice Pictures, the joint venture set up by Forsyth and Objective Fiction, part of All3Media’s Objective Media Group, makes the show in association with All3Media International, which has international sales rights.
Forsyth (Guilt, Eric, Ernie & Me) is the writer, Patrick Harkins (Tin Star, Guilt) the director and Charlie Leech (Bounty Hunters, Lovesick) returns as producer. Executive producers are Forsyth and Ben Farrell for Tannadice Pictures, and Nick Lambon for the BBC.
