{"id":321804,"date":"2025-12-17T23:23:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/321804\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T23:23:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:23:20","slug":"patience-series-2-to-return-to-channel-4-on-january-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/321804\/","title":{"rendered":"Patience Series 2 to return to Channel 4 on January 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Patience, a crime drama set in York, has announced that its set to return to our screens again at 9pm on January 7, 2026.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Based on French drama Astrid et Rapha\u00eblle, Patience tells the story of a young woman with autism who works in the criminal records department for \u2018City of York Police\u2019 and works to solve crimes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  RECOMMENDED READING:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0qDa5W5ly9M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">trailer<\/a> shares snippets of the new series with a focus on the relationship between \u00a0DI Frankie Monroe \u2013 a new detective set to replace DI Metcalfe \u2013 played by BAFTA award winner Jessica Hynes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The second series of the show also promises \u201cmore twisted and mysterious crimes in spectacular settings\u201d including a killer in York Minster, a murder in a monastery, and a body in the Botanical Gardens.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesperson for the series said: \u201cPATIENCE\u00a0IS BACK!\u00a0&#8211; Channel 4&#8217;s most popular drama of 2025 is\u00a0on your screens from 7th January at 9pm with all episodes available to stream! Catch up with Patience and the team as they solve more\u00a0intriguing crimes across York!\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The first series, which premiered on January 8 of this year, was the biggest drama of the year for Channel 4 \u2013 averaging 4.2 million viewers per episode \u2013 and received critical acclaim in the\u00a0US when it was aired by PBS.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The cast returned to York this June to film the second series \u2013 filming\u00a0all over the city for ten days, including a story set in and around York Minster.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Having filmed their last season during a rainy and cold April, the crew said that their return to the city during the summer had given them a new appreciation for York in the sun.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ella Maisy Purvis, playing the titular character, enthused about how the sunny weather complemented the new season&#8217;s feel, describing York as a &#8220;gorgeous city&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She said: \u201cI also think the show has a different feel, so the weather just suits it a lot better.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>New detective Frankie Monroe (Jessica Hynes) who clashes with Patience (Image: Provided)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cIt\u2019s funny \u2013 there\u2019s a lot of shots where I just need to look and walk and stare and take things in and there\u2019s no acting required there. Patience has lived here all her life, but it\u2019s just so easy, like today in the Minster, and it\u2019s not hard to act that when it\u2019s such a gorgeous city.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Nathan Welsh, portraying the role of Jake Hunter, agreed \u2013 adding: &#8220;We film so much in Belgium that York isn\u2019t in our minds, but you come here, and it\u2019s like, oh okay now you see it&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patience, a crime drama set in York, has announced that its set to return to our screens again&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-321804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321804","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=321804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}