The Gold season 2, which continues the police hunt for the gold stolen in the infamous 1983 Brink's-Mat robbery, is now officially on the way in 2025.
With The Gold season 1 proving such a huge hit for BBC1 in 2023, fans will be delighted to again see Hugh Bonneville as detective Brian Boyce trying to get justice in the 1980s. Also back for The Gold season 2 are Charlotte Spencer, Emun Elliott, Tom Cullen, Stefanie Martini, Peter Davison, Amanda Drew, Silas Carson and Sam Spruell. But there are new cast too including Tom Hughes, Stephen Campbell Moore, Joshua McGuire, Joshua Samuels and Tamsin Topolski.
Jack Lowden won't be back as master criminal Kenneth Noye, nor will Dominic Cooper be returning as dodgy solicitor Edwyn Cooper.
Here's everything we know about The Gold season 2...
The Gold season 2 release date
The Gold season 2 will be shown on BBC1 in 2025. In the meantime, you can stream the first season on BBC iPlayer, along with a whole host of shows; here are our recommendations of the best BBC dramas if you're looking for something new to watch while you wait.
The Gold season 2 plot
The final scenes of the first series set up the second, with the cops realizing they'd only tracked down half the gold. Now for The Gold season 2, the BBC teases: "Following the conviction of some of those involved in the theft and handling of the Brink’s-Mat gold, the police (Hugh Bonneville, Charlotte Spencer, Emun Elliot) realized that those criminals only ever had half of it. Series two explores what happened to the other half, and the criminal fortune it created. As the police investigation continues, it becomes a tense, high-stakes journey into international money laundering and organized crime, while the police embark on dramatic manhunts as they desperately try to solve the longest and most expensive investigation in the history of the Metropolitan Police."
The Gold season 2 returning cast
Hugh Bonneville (Brian Boyce), Charlotte Spencer (Nicki Jennings), Emun Elliott (Tony Brightwell), Tom Cullen (John Palmer), Stefanie Martini (Marnie Palmer) and Sam Spruell (Charlie Miller) all return as well as Peter Davison (Assistant Commissioner Gordon Stewart), Amanda Drew (CS Cath McClean) and Silas Carson (Harry Bowman).
New cast joining The Gold season 2
The Gold season 2 has a number of new cast, including Tom Hughes (The English, Victoria), Stephen Campbell Moore (Masters of the Air, Criminal Record), Joshua McGuire (Cheaters, Blitz), Tamsin Topolski (The Madness, Slow Horses), Joshua Samuels (Saltburn, Sexy Beast), Rochelle Neil (Three Little Birds, The Nevers), Antonia Desplat (Shantaram, Modi), Lorna Brown (The Witcher, Vampire Academy), Thomas Coombes (Baby Reindeer, Boiling Point), Sean Teale (Doctor Odyssey, Rosaline) and Olivia Grant (Stardust, All the Money in the World).
Is there a trailer?
No, not yet. But when The Gold season 2 trailer arrives we'll be posting right here.
Behind the scenes and more on The Gold season 2
Filming on The Gold season 2 began in January 2024. The Gold series 2 is a 6-parter commissioned by Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC Drama, and is produced by Tannadice Pictures, the joint venture set up by Neil Forsyth and Objective Fiction, part of Objective Media Group, an All3Media Company, for the BBC. It is produced in association with All3Media International. It is written by Neil Forsyth (Guilt, Eric, Ernie & Me), directed by Patrick Harkins (Tin Star, Guilt) with Charlie Leech (Bounty Hunters, Lovesick) returning as producer. Executive producers are Neil Forsyth and Ben Farrell for Tannadice Pictures, with Nick Lambon for the BBC.
Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC Drama says: "We’re immensely proud to partner with Neil Forsyth and the team to continue the story of The Gold. Millions of viewers across the U.K. were enthralled with its gripping and confident exploration of the fallout from the notorious Brink’s-Mat robbery and, as we saw, there’s still so much more left for DCS Boyce and the team to uncover."
