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BritBox has revealed the release window for Karen Pirie season 2, an unflinching and quietly brilliant Scottish cold case crime drama. Based on the bestselling Inspector Karen Pirie books by Val McDermid,Karen Pirie season 1 introduced viewers to the fearless, determined, and sympathetic Detective Sergeant Karen Pirie (Lauren Lyle) as she was thrust into the midst of a high-profile cold case. In the late 1990s, a young woman named Rosie Duff was murdered and left for dead in a church graveyard; nearly 30 years later, a podcaster picked up the trail, and the police were incentivized to reopen the inquiry.

Karen Pirie returns for season 2 with three new feature-length episodes, releasing exclusively on BritBox in the U.S. and Canada this October. U.K. viewers will be able to catch the Scottish crime drama on ITV this coming July. Having successfully closed such a highly scrutinized case in season 1 (though not without...

BritBox and World Productions have revealed a first look at the return of the critically-acclaimed, award-winning Original cold-case drama Karen Pirie. Double BAFTA Scotland winner Lauren Lyle reprises her role as audience-favorite Detective Inspector Karen Pirie, with a riveting new case to solve.

After captivating audiences as one of the UK’s most-watched dramas, the 3 x 120’ series, based on celebrated author Val McDermid’s A Darker Domain and adapted by Emer Kenny, will return for a second season in October on BritBox in the U.S. and Canada.

The first look pictures offer a glimpse into the thrilling new series, hailed as “a refreshing take on the detective genre.” After her bittersweet success in series one, Karen has been promoted to Detective Inspector and seemingly given the authority she has long been fighting for.

Just as she’s getting into the swing of her powerful new role, she is assigned...

ITV Unveils First Looks At ‘Karen Pirie’ Season 2

Karen Pirie, ITV’s latest drama from Malpractice and Line of Duty maker World Productions, is coming back on June 21. Above and below are first-look images at the returning cop drama, which stars Lauren Lyle as Detective Inspector Karen Pirie. Her latest case, which runs to three two-hour episodes, is based on author Val McDermid’s book ‘A Darker Domain’ and adapted by Emer Kenny. The plot sees the newly-promoted Di assigned an infamous unsolved case that puts her under intense scrutiny. Chris Jenks, Zach Wyatt, Steve John Shepherd (Harry Potter), Kenny (The Curse) and Rakhee Thakrar (Wonka) return, with Saskia Ashdown (Six Four), James Cosmo (Braveheart), Frances Tomelty (Unforgotten) and John Michie (Holby City) joining the cast. Season 1 averaged nearly 6 million viewers back in 2022. In the U.S.

Nearly three years after solving her first mystery and earning that coveted promotion to Detective Inspector, Karen Pirie is finally getting back to work. BritBox and World Productions revealed the first images from Season 2 of the British cold-case drama, which finds Lauren Lyle's titular crime-solver back in the saddle with a new, disturbing assignment that will have all eyes on her. Adapted once again by Emer Kenny, this run of episodes is based on the second book in Val McDermid's best-selling series of detective novels, titled A Darker Domain, and picks up with the inspector getting used to her newfound authority. However, that position is quickly tested when she's given a case from 1984 that has long confounded investigators, enraptured the public, and attracted attention from sinister forces that would rather the past stay buried.

Season 2 centers on the case of Catriona and Adam Grant, a charming heiress of...

How To Get Away With Murder star Alfred Enoch is replacing Jodie Whittaker in the second season of BBC drama Trust Me.

The series, which is produced by Happy Valley producer Red Production Company, was a hit for the British public broadcaster last year with over 6M viewers. However, Whittaker’s new job as the Doctor in the new season of Doctor Who meant she was unable to return.

Instead, Enoch, who also starred in Harry Potter, will play Corporal Jamie McCain, a survivor of a shock enemy attack. Recovering from a spinal injury in the neurological unit of Glasgow Hospital, which has left him temporarily paralysed, Jamie faces a new enemy as fellow patients on the ward die unexpectedly around him.

Enoch will be joined in the four-part drama by Four Weddings and a Funeral’s John Hannah, who plays Dr Archie Watson, whose awkward persona hides a seedier and more sinister side,...