Prime Video announced today that it has renewed its hit Australian Original crime comedy series, Deadloch, for a second season.
The news from Prime Video, Guesswork Television, and OK Great Productions comes a year after the first season of Deadloch premiered globally and went on to reach the list of Top 10 TV Shows on Prime Video in more than 165 countries and territories (including the US, UK, and Canada), and garner multiple award nominations and wins, the latter of which includes five AACTA awards, amongst them for Best Acting in a Comedy (Kate Box) and Best Screenplay in Television (for series co-creators Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan). It also became a darling of both critics and viewers alike.
Season 1, set in the once-sleepy Tasmanian seaside hamlet of Deadloch, introduced us to two very different detectives: Senior Sergeant Dulcie Collins (Kate Box, Wentworth, Rake), a fastidious Deadloch local, and Senior Investigator Eddie Redcliffe (Madeleine Sami, The Bad Seed, Top of the Lake), a rough-as-guts blow-in from Darwin. These two get thrown together to solve the murder of a man who turned up dead on the beach in Deadloch.
Picking up where Season 1 left off, Season 2 heads to the Top End of Australia, where Dulcie and Eddie are in Darwin investigating the death of Eddie’s former policing partner, Bushy. But when the bodies of two Top End icons are discovered in a remote town, the detective duo is flung into a new, sweatier, stickier investigation.
In addition to Kate Box and Madeleine Sami, Nina Oyama (Utopia, Class of ’07) reprises her role as junior constable Abby Matsuda, as does Alicia Gardiner (Wakefield, Offspring) as Cath York, Dulcie’s wife.
Deadloch: Season 2 is created and written by Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan, who also serve as executive producers alongside Kevin Whyte and Tanya Phegan from Guesswork Television. Andy Walker is the producer, and the series will be directed by Beck Cole (Wentworth) and Gracie Otto (Heartbreak High). The new season is financed with the Assistance of Screen Territory and proudly supported by the Queensland Government through Screen Queensland’s Production Attraction Strategy.
Production on the six-part second season will start later this year. It will be released globally on Prime Video. A premiere date has not been announced yet. Stay tuned for updates.
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