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<\/p>\nWhen The Night Manager returns on New Year\u2019s Day it will have been ten years since Tom Hiddleston seduced audiences as Jonathan Pine, the hotel manager turned spy in the critically acclaimed adaptation of John le Carr\u00e9\u2019s 1993 novel.<\/p>\n
Amazon has teamed up with the BBC for the new series, which means a higher budget than the original\u2019s \u00a320 million and a wider international audience when it lands on Prime Video on January 11. The second series expands beyond the source material with a new story, written by the series creator David Farr.<\/p>\n
\u201cRevisiting the story of Pine means going beyond the events of John le Carr\u00e9\u2019s original work. That is a decision we have not taken lightly, but his compelling characters and the vision David has for their next chapter were irresistible,\u201d the writer\u2019s sons Simon and Stephen Cornwell have said. <\/p>\n
Read on for a guide to the new series, as well as a recap of the first for those of us who have forgotten. <\/p>\n
Who\u2019s in the new series of The Night Manager?<\/p>\n
Having performed what many saw as a de facto Bond audition in the first series (now, at 44, the actor is unlikely to be chosen as the next 007), Hiddleston returns as Pine, the suavely charming former British soldier who fought in Iraq and was working as a night manager in a posh Cairo hotel as a form of self-exile at the start of series one. In the second series he is living under the alias Alex Goodwin, a low-level MI6 officer in charge of a surveillance unit in London who is called to action when he happens to see a mercenary he knows worked for Richard Roper \u2014 Hugh Laurie\u2019s arms dealer in series one. <\/p>\n
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Olivia Colman reprises her role as Angela Burr<\/p>\n
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Olivia Colman returns as Angela Burr, the MI6 intelligence officer who worked with Pine in the last series, while the 20-year-old north London actor Noah Jupe reprises his role as Roper\u2019s son Danny, and Alastair Petrie, so memorable as the awful head teacher in Sex Education, is back as Roper\u2019s financial director Sandy Longbourne. <\/p>\n
\u2022 John le Carr\u00e9\u2019s final plot to put fraudster father centre-stage<\/a><\/p>\n Laurie is unlikely to reappear since Roper was abducted by Syrian creditors at the end of the first series. Instead there is a new dodgy money-mover, a Colombian businessman called Teddy Dos Santos, played by Diego Calva. Camila Morrone, the star of Daisy Jones and the Six (and Leonardo DiCaprio\u2019s former girlfriend<\/a> of five years), takes on the role of Roxana Bola\u00f1os, a businesswoman who helps Pine to penetrate Dos Santos\u2019s arms empire. \u201cCami Morrone\u2019s Roxy is a creature of her own destiny,\u201d the lead executive producer Stephen Garrett told Vanity Fair, promising she would be a more complex character than Elizabeth Debicki\u2019s Jed in series one, who was \u201cto some extent the wife of our worst man in the world [Roper] and needed to be liberated by another man in Tom Hiddleston\u201d. <\/p>\n Also new to the cast is Indira Varma from Doctor Who.<\/p>\n Leonardo DiCaprio\u2019s former girlfriend Camila Morrone is one of the new additions to the cast<\/p>\n BBC<\/p>\n Who\u2019s making it?<\/p>\n Farr is very much the engine behind the new series \u2014 so much so that he told Vanity Fair the way forward came to him in a dream during lockdown the night before le Carr\u00e9 (real name David Cornwell) died<\/a>. <\/p>\n John le Carr\u00e9\u2019s sons Simon and Stephen Cornwell<\/p>\n DAVE BENETT\/GETTY IMAGES FOR APPLE TV+<\/p>\n Joining him at the helm is Ink Factory, the production company run by le Carr\u00e9\u2019s sons Simon and Stephen, who produce all adaptations of their father\u2019s intellectual property. Simon is confident about their vision. \u201cWhen a lot of writers pass, their estates contain all kinds of strict rules. Thou shalt not change this, or that. And my dad\u2019s letter said: \u2018You know what I stand for, respect what I stand for, but only you can figure out where to go next.\u2019 And that is sort of the invitation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Georgi Banks-Davies (I Hate Suzie) takes over as director from Susanne Bier. \u201cStill feels like a DREAM directing this. Get ready for the ride,\u201d she posted on Instagram. And Laurie may not be back on screen, but he is on board as an executive producer. <\/p>\n What happened in series one of The Night Manager? The cast of series one, from left: Hugh Laurie, Tom Hiddleston, Elizabeth Debicki, Olivia Colman, Tom Hollander<\/p>\n MITCH JENKINS<\/p>\n Pine is working at a swanky hotel in Egypt and sleeping with Sophie (real name Samira) \u2014 the mistress of a Cairo gangster, Freddie Hamid. She is murdered after giving Pine a list of the weapons Hamid stocks and Pine sets out on an undercover revenge mission against Roper, who is selling Hamid weapons. MI6 then manufactures a fake kidnapping of Roper\u2019s girlfriend Jed and son Danny so that Pine can save them, earning Roper\u2019s trust. (He subsequently has an affair with Jed.) He and Pine then go to Syria, where Pine is told to showcase the weapons to potential buyers. There he beats Roper\u2019s henchman Corky (Tom Hollander) to death after Corky threatens to reveal to Roper that Pine is a spy. Roper then discovers that Pine is a spy after torturing Jed. Pine blows up the weapons promised in a big sale and Roper is abducted by his Syrian creditors. <\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\/59625281-d934-42ce-b3c6-4ddf09dcbfcb.jpg\")
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