{"id":35522,"date":"2025-08-19T16:58:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T16:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/netflix-crime-drama-to-return-for-second-series\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T16:59:00","slug":"netflix-crime-drama-to-return-for-second-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/netflix-crime-drama-to-return-for-second-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix crime drama to return for second series"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Matthew Goode (Downton Abbey, Stoker) plays Det Chief Insp Carl Morck<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Netflix has confirmed hit crime drama Department Q, which was set and filmed in Edinburgh, will return for a second series. <\/p>\n

The streaming giant said Matthew Goode will again play DCI Carl Morck, a damaged and shambolic detective who heads up the department of misfits in the basement of a police station.<\/p>\n

The show follows the team as they are charged with solving cases which were previously deemed unsolvable.<\/p>\n

The new season will see Morck reunited with team members Alexej Manvelov as Akram, Leah Byrne as Rose and Jamie Sives as Hardy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Department Q is based on a book series by Danish writer Jussi Adler-Olsen.<\/p>\n

But Scandi noir became Tartan noir after the show’s director set foot on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh while scouting locations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A Danish language version of the programme was previously shown on the BBC, but Netflix brought the first big budget English language version to screens worldwide in May.<\/p>\n

Department Q spent six weeks in Netflix’s top ten shows following its release.<\/p>\n

Scott Frank, the show’s writer and director, previously told BBC Scotland News<\/a> how the Scottish setting also allowed him to focus on the humour of the original novels.<\/p>\n

Frank, who also directed The Queen’s Gambit, said: “I’m grateful to the folks at Netflix, as well as our shining cast and crew, for once more risking their careers to enable my folly.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Executive producer Rob Bullock said he had a “really wonderful response” to the news of the second series.<\/p>\n

“It is going to be loosely based on the second book in Jussi’s series,” he said.<\/p>\n

“And much like season one, we will take the book and the gold that’s in that book but then go off and tell our own stories alongside it.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chloe Pirrie (The Game, An Inspector Calls) plays Merritt Lingard, a local solicitor<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Bullock said Edinburgh was still an important part of the process.<\/p>\n

“It is such a fantastic, cinematic city,” he added.<\/p>\n

“When we found out it’s often the case that shows are set there but not filmed there, we thought that was a really exciting opportunity for us to live and film in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

“It’s one of those places that looks beautiful in each direction you point the camera.<\/p>\n

“That’s what we wanted from the start, to make a really beautiful thriller.”<\/p>\n

Filming is set to begin early next year.<\/p>\n

Netflix executives Mona Qureshi and Manda Levin said: “We are raring to return to Carl Morck and his band of glorious misfits at Department Q. <\/p>\n

“Scott Frank brought us best-in-class storytelling and thrilled Netflix audiences worldwide.<\/p>\n

“We can’t wait to see what Morck and the gang uncover in season two… Edinburgh, we’re back.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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