VOD News | On 14, Dec 2025

Down Cemetery Road will officially return to Apple TV+ for a second season.

Based on Mick Herron’s novel of the same name, the crime thriller follows a house explosion in a quiet Oxford suburb. When a girl disappears in the aftermath, neighbour Sarah Trafford (Ruth Wilson) becomes obsessed with finding her and enlists the help of private investigator Zoë Boehm (Emma Thompson). Zoë and Sarah suddenly find themselves in a complex conspiracy that reveals that people long believed dead are still among the living, while the living are fast joining the dead

“This entertaining, twisting conspiracy thriller is grounded by excellent turns from Ruth Wilson and Emma Thompson,” we wrote in our review of Season 1.

Produced by 60Forty Films, Down Cemetery Road is written by Morwenna Banks, who has also been involved in Apple’s adaptation of Herron’s Slough House series of novels into the hit Slow Horses. Banks serves as executive producer alongside Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta and Tom Nash at 60Forty Films, Thompson, and Mick Herron. Natalie Bailey (Bay of Fires) served as lead director for Season 1.

Now, hot on the heels of the first season finale, and with another three Zoë Boehm novels by Herron, it’s perhaps no surprise that Apple TV+ has announced a Season 2 renewal.

“I’m so thrilled that Down Cemetery Road has been enjoyed enough to warrant a second season. The thought of working with the team again, with wonderful Morwenna Banks in the writer’s seat and the indomitable Ruth Wilson who is the best and most brilliant co-star any aging Dame could desire, is frankly far more than I feel I deserve. Zoë Boehm is a punkishly delicious avatar and I can’t wait to pull on her knockoff Doc Martens again. Thanks to everyone who watched! We are go for the next one and it’s all down to you,” said star and executive producer Emma Thompson.

“Audiences around the world fell in love with ‘Down Cemetery Road’ and I am glad the unlikely duo of Zoë and Sarah will be back with their unique form of acerbic wit,” said Jay Hunt, creative director, Europe, Apple TV.

Season 2 reunites Zoë Boehm (Thompson) and Sarah Trafford (Wilson) chasing down another twisted mystery. After a woman falls in front of a train, Zoë is called in to investigate, but this seemingly simple case soon upends her life as she and Sarah find themselves navigating the glamorous but ruthless world of black market antiquities. Matters take a deadly turn when they stumble into the path of a brutal serial killer who will stop at nothing to cover up his crimes.

Börkur Sigþórssen (“Insomnia”) will serve as lead director for the second season.

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