Channel 4 Renews Crime Thriller ‘Before We Die’ for Season 2 (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comManori Ravindran International EditorChannel 4 has renewed the Lesley Sharp-fronted crime thriller “Before We Die” — an English adaptation of a Swedish series, produced by the team behind Walter Presents.Sharp will return as detective Hannah Laing, who joins forces with maverick detective Billy Murdoch (Vincent Regan) in a desperate bid to protect her son Christian (Gibson).
Season 2 won’t follow the same storyline as its Swedish counterpart, which aired in 2019, but will see Hannah pitched directly against Dubravka, played by Kazia Pelka, the matriarch at the head of the Mimica Croatian crime family.The adaptation is produced by Eagle Eye Drama, which was formed in late 2019 by Walter Iuzzolino, Jo McGrath and Jason Thorp, the creative team behind the global drama company Walter Presents.
Channel 4 has a minority stake in the outfit, which began as the international drama showcase for the broadcaster and has since grown into an international niche streamer.
Reflecting on the show, Sharp told Variety: “Caroline Hollick reminded me of a conversation we had years before we were both involved with ‘Before We Die.’ We were on a TV panel, somewhere, discussing female presence on screen and within the industry as a whole.“‘Wouldn’t it be great,’ we had said to each other, ‘if a time came when stories where women were the heroes, at the epicentre of drama, were not required to be in service to a lover, to domesticity, to being the side show fixer of emotional, spiritual or physical pain.
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