Eight new episodes will begin filming on location in Manchester at the end of October.

Writer and co-creator Sally Wainwright (At Home With The Braithwaites) will again write the series, with the help of Consultancy Producer Diane Taylor, a retired Detective.

Exploring the personal and professional lives of Detective Constable Rachel Bailey (Jones) and Detective Constable Janet Scott (Sharp), Series 1 launched in May.

In an interview with CultBox earlier this year, Suranne Jones told us how she came up with the show’s concept with Coronation Street co-star Sally Lindsay: “…in the pub, with a couple of glasses of wine! We were talking about how it’d be great to have a female-led programme that wasn’t wife-of, sidekick-to, mother-of, mistress-to… all that kind of stuff.”

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Watch the Series 1 trailer…