Karen Pirie Investigates Season 2 With The Release Of The Trailer For The ITV Series
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Lauren Lyle returns as Karen Pirie with the release of the trailer for the second season of the critically acclaimed drama series.
ITV has unveiled the first trailer for Series 2 of Karen Pirie. The critically acclaimed cold-case drama from World Productions (Line of Duty, Bodyguard). Part of ITV Studios, based on celebrated author Val McDermid’s A Darker Domain and adapted by Emer Kenny. The series will return to ITV and ITVX on July 20th.
CRITICAL ACCLAIM
‘THIS FEMALE-LED CRIME DRAMA ABSOLUTELY SINGS’ – THE GUARDIAN
‘ITV HAS A NEW JEWEL IN ITS CROWN’ – THE IPAPER
SEASON 2
After her bittersweet success in the first series, Karen Pirie (played by Lauren Lyle) has earned a promotion to Detective Inspector, gaining the authority she has fought for. As she starts to embrace her powerful new role, her boss assigns her an infamous unsolved case that will place her under intense scrutiny from the media and, ultimately, from sinister forces determined to keep the past buried.
The 1984 case of Catriona and Adam Grant has puzzled investigators and captivated the public like no other. Catriona (Julia Brown), a charming young heiress to a vast oil fortune, and her two-year-old son Adam were kidnapped at gunpoint outside a fish and chip shop in Fife. The ransom notes that followed sparked a media frenzy. However, when the kidnappers fell silent, the police struggled to make progress, and Catriona and Adam disappeared without a trace.
Authorities have discovered a man’s body that has clear links to the original kidnapping case. With the first piece of evidence in decades, Karen must assemble an unbeatable team alongside her sincere and lovable sidekick, DC Jason ‘Mint’ Murray (Chris Jenks). And the brilliant–but–romantically complicated-DS Phil Parhatka (Zach Wyatt). With the international renown of the kidnapping and the constant pressure from Catriona’s father, Sir Broderick Grant (James Cosmo), the team take on the biggest challenge of their careers to date. As Karen delves deeper into what happened in the autumn of 1984, political grudges and painful secrets reveal themselves. And it soon becomes clear. The past is far from dead.
SEASON 2 CAST
Returning alongside Lauren Lyle for Season 2 are Emer Kenny, Chris Jenks, Zach Wyatt, Steve John Shepherd, and Rakhee Thakrar. New cast members Saskia Ashdown and James Cosmo join Frances Tomelty. John Michie, Mark Rowley. James Fleet and Julia Brown in the series. World Productions produces Karen Pirie in association with ITV Studios, which also handles its distribution.
Karen Pirie is produced by World Productions, in association with and distributed by ITV Studios.
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