Overview
- Netflix shared a first look as filming began in Birmingham on the untitled follow-up led by Jamie Bell as Duke, with Charlie Heaton co-leading and Jessica Brown Findlay, Lashana Lynch, and Lucy Karczewski also in the cast.
- The BBC and Netflix have ordered two seasons of six episodes each with a UK run on BBC One and iPlayer and a global release on Netflix.
- The story shifts to post‑war Birmingham in the early 1950s, set ten years after the events of The Immortal Man.
- Bell becomes the third actor to portray Duke, a role the official logline describes as older, wiser, more ambitious, and more dangerous.
- Creator Steven Knight returns to write and steer the sequel, with Mike Barker directing the opening episode.