BBC crime drama This City is Ours is coming back for more.
The Liverpool-set show starring Sean Bean, James Nelson-Joyce (Black Mirror) and Saoirse-Monica Jackson (Derry Girls) is BBC iPlayer’s biggest new drama launch of the year so far, the broadcaster said.
Created and written by Stephen Butchard and produced by The Crown indie Left Bank, This City is Ours tells the story of Michael (Nelson-Joyce) and Diana’s (Hannah Onslow) love affair, set against the disintegration of Michael’s crime gang. For years, together with his friend Ronnie (Bean), Michael has successfully been bringing cocaine into the city and beyond, using his close links with the Marbella underworld; but when a shipment goes missing, he knows their kingdom is under attack.
Season 1 starred Laura Aikman, Julie Graham, Kevin Harvey, Mike Noble, Bobby Schofield, Darci Shaw and Stephen Walters.
This City is Ours was the first big greenlight for Left Bank after The Crown concluded. It didn’t amass huge overnights but the BBC said it tripled this figure and had reached more than 6.6 million per ep before final episode tonight, with 3 million having already watched the last instalment on iPlayer by Friday afternoon.
Butchard said: “We have all been blown away by the incredibly positive response to This City is Ours. I can’t thank the audience enough for their time and emotional investment.”
This City is Ours is commissioned for the BBC by Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC Drama. It is written by Butchard, and the executive producers are Andy Harries, Rebecca Hodgson and Sian McWilliams for Left Bank Pictures, Butchard, and Jo McClellan and Sami El Hadi for the BBC. Sony Pictures Television distributes internationally.
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