{"id":190593,"date":"2025-10-10T14:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/190593\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T14:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:04:09","slug":"alvaro-morte-shaun-evans-board-bbcs-this-city-is-ours-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/190593\/","title":{"rendered":"Alvaro Morte &#038; Shaun Evans Board BBC&#8217;s &#8216;This City Is Ours&#8217; Season 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/shaun-evans\/\" id=\"auto-tag_shaun-evans\" data-tag=\"shaun-evans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shaun Evans<\/a> (Until I Kill You, Endeavour) and \u00c1lvaro Morte (Money Heist, Immaculate) have joined <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bbc\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bbc\" data-tag=\"bbc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a> crime drama <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/this-city-is-ours\/\" id=\"auto-tag_this-city-is-ours\" data-tag=\"this-city-is-ours\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This City is Ours<\/a>, as cameras roll on Season 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThey will join the returning James Nelson-Joyce as Michael Kavanagh, Hannah Onslow as his partner Diana Williams, Jack McMullen, Mike Noble, Julie Graham and Saoirse-Monica Jackson in the Stephen Butchard series, whose first season has been the BBC\u2019s biggest new drama of 2025 to date with an average of 5.8 million viewers. Also returning are Adam Abbou, Laura Aikman, Kevin Harvey, and Darci Shaw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSpoilers: Evans will play recently released former gangster Ozzie Thomas and Morte is Felipe Guzman, a member of the Colombian cartel\u00a0and younger brother of Ricardo, who was murdered at the end of Season 1. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSeason 2 picks up immediately after. Per the synopsis: \u201cMichael and\u00a0Diana\u00a0have barely arrived in Spain when they are dragged back into the fold to answer questions around Ricardo\u2019s death. Back in Liverpool, tensions continue to bubble amongst the remaining members of the gang. Meanwhile, an old school gangster from Ronnie\u2019s era, recently out of prison, wants compensation from the firm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFilming has begun in and around Liverpool, England, with additional shooting taking place in Spain. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSony-owned <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/left-bank-pictures\/\" id=\"auto-tag_left-bank-pictures\" data-tag=\"left-bank-pictures\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Left Bank Pictures<\/a> produces This City is Ours for BBC iPlayer and BBC One. It was commissioned for the BBC by Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC Drama. Butchard, the creator, serves as lead writer, with Robbie O\u2019Neill writing a further episode. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tExecutive producers are Andy Harries, Rebecca Hodgson and Sian McWilliams for Left Bank, Butchard, Saul Dibb, and Jo McClellan for the BBC. The directors are Saul Dibb, returning as lead director from Season 1, and Chris Baugh, the series producer is Simon Maloney, and the block two producer is Nathan Juckes, both returning. <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/sony-pictures-television\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sony-pictures-television\" data-tag=\"sony-pictures-television\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sony Pictures Television<\/a> will distribute the series internationally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Shaun Evans (Until I Kill You, Endeavour) and \u00c1lvaro Morte (Money Heist, Immaculate) have joined BBC crime&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[83608,243,96,83609,83610,80259,83611,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-190593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-alvaro-morte","tag-bbc","tag-entertainment","tag-left-bank-pictures","tag-shaun-evans","tag-sony-pictures-television","tag-this-city-is-ours","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}