{"id":517790,"date":"2026-06-25T13:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T13:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/517790\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T13:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T13:36:08","slug":"dept-q-season-2-adds-10-to-cast-starts-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/517790\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Dept. Q’ Season 2 Adds 10 to Cast, Starts Production"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe second season of \u201cDept. Q\u201d is officially underway, with the Netflix<\/a> crime series starting production in Scotland and adding 10 cast members.<\/p>\n

\n\tMatthew Goode is set to return as DCI Carl Morck alongside his rag-tag team of Alexej Manvelov as Akram Salim, Leah Byrne as DC Rose Dickson and Jamie Sives as DS James Hardy. Season 2 will once again be filmed and set in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

\n\tJoining the cast for Season 2 are Aisling Franciosi (\u201cSpeak No Evil,\u201d \u201cThe Nightingale\u201d) as Kimmie; Greg Wise (\u201cThe Crown,\u201d \u201cThe Buccaneers\u201d) as Derek Powell; Nicholas Rowe (\u201cRed Eye\u201d S2, \u201cSpy Among Friends\u201d) as Thomas Fulton; Tony Curran (\u201cOutlander: Blood of My Blood,\u201d \u201cMary and George\u201d) as Winnie Calderwood; Hamish Clark (\u201cMonarch of the Glen\u201d) as Christopher Herron; Alex Ferns (\u201cWaiting for the Out,\u201d \u201cThe Batman\u201d) as Phil Allenbeck; Ross Anderson (\u201cKnight of the Seven Kingdoms,\u201d \u201cThe Rig\u201d) as Ricky Daddario; Rebecca Root (\u201cHeartstopper,\u201d \u201cThe Wheel of Time\u201d) as June Lovesay; Isla Johnston (\u201cThe Queen\u2019s Gambit,\u201d \u201cThe Carpenter\u2019s Son\u201d) as Agnes; and Amy Brenneman (\u201cThe Old Man,\u201d \u201cJudging Amy\u201d) as Helen.<\/p>\n

\n\tOther returning faces from Season 1 include Mark Bonnar as Stephen Burns, Kate Dickie as Moira Jacobson, Aaron McVeigh as Jasper and Sanjeev Kohli as Martin Fleming.<\/p>\n

\n\tWritten and directed by Scott Frank (\u201cThe Queen\u2019s Gambit\u201d) and produced by Left Bank Pictures (\u201cThe Crown\u201d), the show follows Morck as as he \u201cheads up the maverick Dept. Q from the basement of an Edinburgh police station, charged with cases previously deemed unsolvable,\u201d according to its synopsis. \u201cThis darkly humorous, propulsive show delivers all the pleasures of a procedural, but takes us into the complex mysteries not just of the cases but of the detectives themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tExecutive producers include Frank, Rob Bullock and Charlotte Moore, with Manda Levin and Jessica Burdett overseeing for Netflix.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis season, Carl and his band of misfits tackle a terrible crime hidden in the highest echelons of Scottish society,\u201d Left Bank\u2019s Bullock said in a statement. \u201cIt is a story for our times: rich and powerful people who believe they are above the law. Carl, of course, knows otherwise. It\u2019s a joy to be working with master storyteller Scott Frank once again, along with the rest of team dolally. We applaud Netflix\u2019s courage for letting them loose once again.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAdded Netflix\u2019s Levin: \u201cSeason 1 of \u2018Dept. Q\u2019 made us laugh and cry; it shocked and intrigued us; we fell in love with the characters and with the incredibly vivid and iconic world that Scott Frank and his amazing team conjured up in one of our very favorite cities. That it was embraced so wholeheartedly by an audience in Scotland, in the rest of the U.K., and across the world, was thrilling. The story of Season 2 is as darkly delicious as you\u2019d expect, and Carl and his glorious gang will have their work cut out pinning down the perpetrators as we launch back in for more!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The second season of \u201cDept. Q\u201d is officially underway, with the Netflix crime series starting production in Scotland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[220889,93,61,60,1868,282],"class_list":["post-517790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-dept-q","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-netflix","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}