BBC One has announced four of its biggest dramas will return for a second series. The Responder, Vigil, Time and The Tourist will all be making a comeback.
Martin Freeman blew viewers away earlier this year when he starred as urgent response officer Chris Carson in Liverpool-based drama The Responder, written by ex-police officer Tony Schumacher. While Jamie Dornan took on the role as The Man in an epic cat and mouse chase in the heart of the Australian outback for The Tourist.
According to the BBC, The Tourist is the highest-rating drama of 2022 so far, having launched with a huge 12 million viewers. Meanwhile, the second biggest new drama of 2022 so far was The Responder, launching with nearly 10 million viewers across 30-days.
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Both will return for a second series, with the broadcaster confirming The Responder will once again be set and filmed in Liverpool. Also returning is two of 2021's highest performing new dramas, Vigil and Time.
Vigil, starring Suranne Jones, had people on the edge of their seat in the tense submarine thriller set and filmed in Scotland. While prison-drama Time, featuring Sean Bean and Stephen Graham, received rave reviews.
BBC Chief Content Officer, Charlotte Moore, said: "The BBC is on fire creatively and the return of four of our biggest dramas over the last year demonstrates the sheer scale and range of storytelling on the BBC."
Series one of all four dramas are available to watch now on BBC iPlayer. Further information about each series will be revealed in due course. For more showbiz and television stories, get our newsletter here.
