Olivia Colman is among the cast returning for series 2 of The Night Manager, and here are the details.
Back in 2018, The Night Manager was a huge hit for the BBC, winning 36 awards including two Emmys, a BAFTA and several Golden Globes.
Adapted from the 1993 novel by John Le Carre, the show followed Jonathan Pine (Tom Hiddleston), the night manager of a high class hotel in Cairo, who is recruited by Angela Burr (Olivia Colman), the manager of a Foreign Office task force, to infiltrate the inner circle of sinister arms dealer Richard Roper (Hugh Laurie).
It was a glossy, big budget production, and writer David Farr expertly crafted Le Carre’s twisty plot into six exhilarating hours of drama.
Earlier this year, the BBC confirmed that two more series have been commissioned and will be filmed back to back, presumably owing to Hiddleston’s busy schedule. Farr returned to write the scripts, which will be directed by Georgi Banks-Davies. Stephen Garrett will also return to produce, with Hiddleston and Laurie executive producing. The series will pick up Pine’s story eight years after the finale of the first series.
Olivia Colman is among the cast returning for series 2 of The Night Manager, here are the details.The BBC have now confirmed the rest of the cast. Reprising their roles from the first series are Hiddleston as Jonathan Pine, Olivia Colman as Angela Burr, Alistair Petrie as Sandy Langbourne, Douglas Hodge as Rex Mayhew, Michael Nardone as Frisky and Noah Jupe as Daniel Roper.
New cast members include Diego Calva, Camila Morrone, Indira Varma, Paul Chahidi and Hayley Squires.
Produced by The Ink Factory in association with Character 7, Demarest Films and 127 Wall, and in co-production with Spanish partner Nostromo Pictures, the new series is described as being “inspired by characters created by John Le Carre” – Le Carre did not write a sequel to the novel, but he did make a cameo in episode four of the first series. He sadly passed away in 2020.
Series two of The Night Manager will begin production shortly, and it will premiere on BBC One and iPlayer in the UK, where you can also find the first series. It will be available globally on Prime Video.
