Overview
- Channel 4 formally commissioned an eight-episode second season, a move announced on Monday, June 22, 2026, after the remake’s strong streaming performance.
- Brenda Blethyn and Jessica Reynolds will return to play the older and younger Emma Harte respectively in the new season.
- Writers Katherine Jakeways and Roanne Bardsley are back and The Forge will produce with Beth Willis, Joe Innes and the writers serving as executive producers and Richard Senior attached to direct.
- Season 2 will continue the series’ time‑spanning structure with storylines set in the 1920s as well as scenes in the 1970s, and filming is scheduled to begin in Yorkshire later in 2026.
- Channel 4 said Season 1 averaged about 3 million stream viewers per episode and Banijay Rights will handle international sales while U.S. pickup beyond Season 1 by BritBox has not been confirmed.