By The BBC has ordered a second season of its historical heist drama “The Gold” following the six-episode series launching back in February on BBC One.
The first season was entirely penned by Neil Forsyth and deals with the real-life Brink’s-Mat robbery – Britain’s biggest gold heist to date. Aneil Karia and Lawrence Gough helmed the episodes.
In November 1983, six armed men broke into the Brink’s-Mat security depot near Heathrow Airport, and inadvertently stumbled across gold bullion worth £26 million.
Soon the police are scrambling to quickly recover the stolen gold before it completely becomes untraceable. The theft became a seminal event in British criminal history and the biggest theft in world history at the time, but things didn’t stop there.
The bullion birthed large-scale international money laundering, fueled the London Docklands property boom, and uniting the criminal underworld.
That larger scale impact is expected to be covered in the second season as the story will follow what happened to the missing half of the stolen gold. Shooting on the second season begins in January.
Hugh Bonneville, Charlotte Spencer, Emun Elliott, Tom Cullen,
Stefanie Martini and Sam Spruell are confirmed returnees for the second season. No word on first-season stars Jack Lowden, Dominic Cooper, Sean Harris or Adam Nagaitis and whether they will return.
The seris launch episode took a total of 8.7 million viewers at the time, making it a top-drama new drama across platforms and channels for the network.
Source: Deadline
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