ITV Recommissions Mystery Thriller

ITV has commissioned the second series of hit drama, produced by Nicola Shindler's Quay Street Productions and written by acclaimed screenwriter Mick Ford with BritBox International as co-production partners

Sophie Rundle, Philip Glenister, Lorraine Ashbourne, Nicholas Gleaves and Matt Stokoe will reprise their roles in series 2.

ITV's Director of Drama, Polly Hill, and Drama Commissioner Huw Kennair-Jones have recommissioned a second series of the critically acclaimed mystery thriller, After the Flood.

The six-part series will be produced by Quay Street Productions (Fool Me Once, Dead Hot, Nolly) in association with ITV Studios.

BAFTA nominated writer and actor Mick Ford returns to the series with BritBox International as co-production partners for the drama. The new series will premiere on ITV1 and STV and be available for streaming on ITVX and STV Player and BritBox in North America, Australia and the Nordics.

The second series of After the Flood finds newly promoted detective Jo Marshall on the trail of a baffling murder investigation. As tensions simmer in Waterside amid the rising threat of moorland fires and the subsequent risk of further flooding, a body is discovered in bizarre circumstances. Jo's race to stop the killer will put her in opposition to dark, influential forces within the town, and ultimately take her on a much more personal investigation. One that will require her to operate in secret if she is to have any hope of rooting out the corruption that has blighted the town's police force - and her own family - for decades.

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