David Farnor | On 02, Dec 2023

Hit BBC drama The Gold will return to BBC One and BBC iPlayer for a second season. The critically-acclaimed factual drama is inspired by the true story of the 1983 Brink’s-Mat robbery, and the decades-long chain of events that followed.

Season 1 of The Gold launched on BBC One and BBC iPlayer earlier this year to 8.7 million viewers for its first episode, placing it in the UK’s top five most watched new dramas of the year so far across all platforms and channels.

Returning cast members will include Hugh Bonneville (Brian Boyce), Charlotte Spencer (Nicki Jennings), Emun Elliott (Tony Brightwell), Tom Cullen (John Palmer), Stefanie Martini (Marnie Palmer) and Sam Spruell (Charlie Miller).

Following the conviction of some of those involved in the theft and handling of the Brink’s-Mat gold, the police (Hugh Bonneville, Charlotte Spencer, Emun Elliot) realised that those criminals only ever had half of it. Series two explores what happened to the other half, and the criminal fortune it created. 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.

Filming will begin in January.

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