\n\tJoining them for season two of the BBC<\/a>\u2013BritBox<\/a> hit is Fleabag\u2018s Sian Clifford as local MP Joanna Kemper, and Dept. Q\u2018s Mark Bonnar as newspaper editor Gareth Fisher. The duo is photographed in their new roles below.<\/p>\n \n\tBen Ashenden (Black Mirror) has also joined the cast as DC Ethan Cole, alongside Rumi Sutton (After the Flood) as DC Caitlin Sullivan. Karl Pilkington reprises his role as DCI Matt Neville.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tSian Clifford as local MP Joanna Kemper in \u2018Ludwig\u2019 season two.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of the BBC\/BritBox<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tMark Bonnar joins \u2018Ludwig\u2019 as newspaper editor Gareth Fisher.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of the BBC\/BritBox<\/p>\n \n\tThe first installment of Ludwig, created and written by Mark Brotherhood, followed the Peep Show star as professional puzzler Taylor, whose identical twin brother James mysteriously vanishes. After John was coaxed into taking on his brother\u2019s identity to uncover the truth behind his disappearance, his uneventful life designing puzzles and avoiding the outside world was forced to take a backseat as he imitated James, who happens to be a high-flying detective leading a major crimes team.<\/p>\n \n\tPicking up from the end of season one, John is now a Crime Scene Consultant, working alongside DCI Russell Carter (Ola), on \u201cimpossible\u201d crimes for the Cambridge Police Authority.\u00a0\u201cNo longer having to masquerade as his brother, he\u2019s openly more \u2018Ludwig\u2019 than ever \u2014 brilliant at solving puzzles but hopeless at everything else,\u201d reads a plot synopsis.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cBut John\u2019s identical twin brother, James, is still missing, and now that he\u2019s an official employee of the station, John is forbidden from using any police resources to look for his brother or uncover exactly what he was investigating,\u201d it continues. \u201cOf course, John won\u2019t stop and neither will Lucy (Maxwell Martin), John\u2019s sister-in-law and wife of his missing brother James. A puzzle needs solving and a husband and father needs bringing home. One masquerade may have ended, but a new one has just begun.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tProduced by Big Talk Studios (part of ITV Studios), in collaboration with That Mitchell & Webb Company,\u00a0Ludwig\u00a0premiered to widespread acclaim in Britain. It was the BBC\u2019s biggest scripted show of 2024, racking up over 9.5 million viewers in its first month before it hit BritBox in the U.S, where it became the platform\u2019s biggest scripted series launch to date.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tRalph Ineson in \u2018Ludwig\u2019 season two. <\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of the BBC\/BritBox<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tDipo Ola returns as DCI Russell Carter in \u2018Ludwig\u2019 season two.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of the BBC\/BritBox<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tDorothy Atkinson, Rumi Sutton in \u2018Ludwig\u2019 season two.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of the BBC\/BritBox<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cAfter the phenomenal success of series one, we\u2019re incredibly excited to bring\u00a0Ludwig\u00a0back for audiences around the world,\u201d executive producer Kenton Allen tells THR. \u201cIt was a true breakout show\u2026 a phenomenon that has delivered exceptional global sales. David Mitchell and Anna Maxwell Martin have created something genuinely special at the centre of it: A detective series that feels wholly original, wildly entertaining, and unmistakably authored.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cMark Brotherhood has once again delivered a terrific new set of puzzling murders,\u201d he continued, \u201cand we\u2019re delighted to be expanding the world with the addition of the brilliant Mark Bonnar and Sian Clifford, alongside the hugely talented Ben Ashenden and Rumi Sutton, who all bring real spark and jeopardy to this next chapter.\u00a0Ludwig\u00a0has become exactly the kind of premium returning franchise Big Talk Studios excel at and every network hopes for, and we\u2019re thrilled to be building on that momentum with these fabulous new cast members.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tDavid Mitchell as John \u2018Ludwig\u2019 Taylor in season two of the hit show.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of the BBC\/BritBox<\/p>\n \n\tThe first season of Ludwig<\/a> is available to stream on <\/a>BritBox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everyone\u2019s favorite puzzler-turned-detective is back in the throes of Cambridge\u2019s major crimes team, and The Hollywood Reporter has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[198164,2974,123263,2976,156,1019,2977,111,139,69,437,2025],"class_list":{"0":"post-381097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-anna-maxwell-martin","9":"tag-bbc","10":"tag-britbox","11":"tag-david-mitchell","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-international","14":"tag-ludwig","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nz","18":"tag-tv","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\")
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