VOD News | On 24, May 2025

The Gold will return to BBC One for a second season, and a new trailer gives us a look at the show’s return.

The Gold is inspired by the true story and theories of the 1983 Brink’s-Mat robbery, which saw the theft of £26 million worth of gold bullion, and the decades-long chain of events that followed.

On the 26th November 1983, six armed men broke into the Brink’s-Mat security depot near London’s Heathrow Airport, and inadvertently stumbled across gold bullion worth £26m. What started as ‘a typical Old Kent Road armed robbery’ according to detectives at the time, became a seminal event in British criminal history, remarkable not only for the scale of the theft, at the time the biggest in world history, but for its wider legacy. The disposal of the bullion led to a vast international money laundering operation, provided the dirty money that helped fuel the London Docklands property boom, united blue and white collar criminals and left controversy and murder in its wake.

Created by Neil Forsyth, the series stars Hugh Bonneville as DCI Boyce, the by-the-books police officer tracking down the operation, alongside Charlotte Spencer and Emun Elliott as Boyce’s colleagues, DI Jennings and DI Brightwell, Jack Lowden as Kenneth Noye, a Kent builder turned fence for the gold, and Dominic Cooper as ambitious solicitor Edwyn Cooper.

The series aired in February 2023, with 8.7 million viewers for the first episode. Now, it’s coming back for a second chapter of another six episodes, again penned by Forsyth.

Following multiple court cases and convictions, the police realise that they had only ever been on the trail of half of the Brink’s-Mat gold. Season 2 is inspired by some of the theories around what happened to the other half. As the police investigation continues, it becomes a tense, high-stakes journey into international money laundering and organised crime.

The cast will once again include Bonneville, Spencer, Elliot and Lowden, as well as Tom Cullen (John Palmer), Stefanie Martini (Marnie Palmer) and Sam Spruell (Charlie Miller). Additional returning cast includes Peter Davison (Assistant Commissioner Gordon Stewart), Amanda Drew (CS Cath McClean), Silas Carson (Harry Bowman) and James Nelson-Joyce (Brian Reader).

New cast include Tom Hughes (The English, Victoria), Stephen Campbell Moore (Masters of the Air, Criminal Record), Joshua McGuire (Cheaters, Blitz), Tamsin Topolski (The Madness, Slow Horses), Joshua Samuels (Saltburn, Sexy Beast), Rochelle Neil (Three Little Birds, The Nevers), Antonia Desplat (Shantaram, Modi), Lorna Brown (The Witcher, Vampire Academy), Thomas Coombes (Baby Reindeer, Boiling Point), Sean Teale (Doctor Odyssey, Rosaline) and Olivia Grant (Stardust, All the Money in the World).

You can see them in action on Sunday 8th June, when the series premieres on BBC One at 9pm and all eight episodes land on BBC iPlayer at 6am.

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