SERIES TO EXPECT ON BBC IN 2025: FROM KING AND CONQUEROR, TO LOCKERBIE, MISS AUSTEN, LYNLEY AND SECOND SEASONS OF MARIE ANTOINETTE, GOLD AND TEN POUND POMS

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KINGS, QUEENS, EARLS AND DUKES

After airing the first season two years ago, BBC Two will also air the second season of MARIE ANTOINETTE series later this year. Emilia Schüle as Marie, and Louis Cunningham as the king of France, Louis XVI, return to their roles. At the height of their power, while Marie Antoinette and Louis face an unprecedented financial crisis, the incessant attacks of Provence and Chartres against the royal couple stir up the hatred of the nobles while disastrous consequences are looming with infamous Affair of the Diamond Necklace incident. From Versailles to the Palais-Royal, the revolt rumbles… Meanwhile, BBC One has acquired LYNLEY series with Leo Suter playing the famous detective. They will also have TOWARDS ZERO latest Agatha Christie adaptation with Oliver Jackson Cohen and Matthew Rhys, THE GOLD season two with Hugh Bonneville, Tom Cullen returning to the roles of the gold robbers. Australia set TEN POUND POMS will also return with the second season, while Keeley Hawes will lead MISS AUSTEN costume drama on Jane Austen's sister. At some point during the year BBC will also launch KING AND CONQUEROR epic drama with James Norton and Nicholai Coster Waldau as Harold Earl of Wessex and William, duke of Normandy. Timothy Spall will lead detective drama DEATH VALLEY, while Connor Swindells will lead BBC's version of LOCKERBIE disaster in co production with Netflix.

TIMOTHY SPALL TO LEAD NEW COMEDY MYSTERY DETECTIVE SERIES DEATH VALLEY AT BBC

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DEATH VALLEY MINI SERIES AT BBC

Coming from BBC Wales, the comedy series will follow the unlikely crime-solving partnership between eccentric national treasure John Chapel (Timothy Spall), a retired actor and star of hit fictional detective TV show, and Welsh detective sergeant Janie Mallowan (Gwyneth Keyworth). Thrown together in DEATH VALLEY by the murder of John’s neighbour, John and Janie are an odd, yet hilarious duo with opposing instincts. Every week, they get to the bottom of gripping murders, with various stunning Welsh locations providing a backdrop to their investigations. When John and Janie are not arguing about a case, they’re inevitably up in each other’s personal business. Despite their differences, they soon realise they are the closest thing each other has to a best friend, and unwittingly help one another move on from the past.