BBC finds more puzzles for David Mitchell to solve in Ludwig S2

FIRST LOOK: David Mitchell and Anna Maxwell Martin will be joined by Mark Bonnar and Sian Clifford when puzzling crime comedy-drama Ludwig returns to BBC One and BBC iPlayer for its second season later this year.

Picking up from the end of season one, John (Mitchell) is now a crime scene consultant, working alongside DCI Russell Carter (Dipo Ola) on ‘impossible’ crimes for the Cambridge Police Authority. No longer having to masquerade as his brother, he’s openly more ‘Ludwig’ than ever – brilliant at solving puzzles but hopeless at everything else.

But John’s identical twin brother, James, is still missing, and now that he’s an official employee of the station, John is forbidden from using any police resources to look for his brother or uncover exactly what he was investigating.

Of course, John won’t stop and neither will Lucy (Maxwell Martin), John’s sister-in-law and wife of his missing brother James – a puzzle needs solving and a husband and father needs bringing home. One masquerade may have ended, but a new one has just begun.

Also returning for season two are Dylan Hughes as Henry Betts-Taylor, Dorothy Atkinson as DCS Carol Shaw, Ralph Ineson as Chief Constable Ziegler and Karl Pilkington as DI Matt Neville.

Joining the cast as series regulars are Bonnar as newspaper editor Gareth Fisher, Clifford as local MP Joanne Kemper, Ben Ashenden as DC Ethan Cole and Rumi Sutton as DC Caitlin Sullivan.

Ludwig is created and written by Mark Brotherhood and produced by Big Talk Studios, in association with That Mitchell and Webb Company, in coproduction with BritBox and Germany’s ZDF. ITV Studios handles international distribution.

Season two is again written by Brotherhood, and the directors are George Kane (episodes 1,2 & 3) and Stella Corradi (episodes 4, 5 & 6). The executive producers are Kenton Allen and Toby Welch for Big Talk Studios, Brotherhood, Mitchell, Kathryn O’Connor, Chris Sussman; Robert Schildhouse and Stephen Nye for BritBox; and Frank Seyberth and Claus Wunn for ZDF. The producer is Georgie Fallon, with Anya Wilson as coproducer.

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