Season 2 of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is getting the cast bigger, with nine new names added to the highly successful short-term drama, adaptations of the Holly Jackson novel series. The very first glimpse of Emma Myers back in the role of Pip Fitz-Amobi is also being given.
BBC, Netflix and ZDFneo said Monday that the series will add Misia Butler (Kaos) as Stanley Forbes, a bit-player in the case, who might have deeper links than they would appear. Jamie Reynolds (Connor brother) will be played by Eden Hambelton Davies (Tell Me Everything), who is a quiet yet a popular local musician whose disappearance generates a wave of shock among the locals.
There is also the introduction of Jack Rowan (Noughts And Crosses) as the new neighbor of Pip, Charlie Green, who ends up being part of the mystery that is being solved in Little Kilton.
Anna Brindle, (The Outs), Peter Sullivan, (Around The World In 80 Days) Freddie Thorp, (Fate: The Winx Saga), Lu Corfield, (The Crow Girl) Stephanie Street, (Breathtaking) and Freddie England will join Season 2 cast as well in key roles.
They are joined by returning Season 1 cast Zain Iqbal (Death, Whatever!), Henry Ashton (My Lady Jane), Asha Banks (My Fault: London) and Yali Topol Margalith (The Tattooist of Auschwitz) and Jude Morgan-Collie (Here We Go).
Since resolving the case of Andie Bell, Pip has undergone a major change in her world through what she has done, not all of which is good. Pip intends to correct the mess-up, and avoid future inquiries. However, in the run up to the trial of Max Hastings, Jamie, Connor brother, mysteriously goes missing and it is up to Pip to track him as fast as possible. This new unexpectation will lead Pip to places that she did not expect as she battles her notion of justice and further deviating hers being the good girl she was.
A Good Girl Guide to Murder was the most watched programme on BBC iPlayer (2015-2019 16-24 years old), and the most watched drama on BBC Three the relaunched channel since relaunch.
BBC commission In November 2015, Season two was commissioned at the BBC by Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC Drama, and Fiona Campbell, Controller Youth Audience, BBC Three and BBC iPlayer. It is produced by Moonage Pictures on behalf of BBC iPlayer and BBC Three as co-production with Netflix and ZDFneo.
It is a screen adaptation of Holly Jackson and Poppy Cogan. Sophie Klein produces series two. The directors of block one are Asim Abbasi and the director of block two is Jill Robertson.
Execuitve producers are Matthew Read, Simon Crawford Collins and Frith Tiplady of Moonage Pictures; Lucy Richer, Danielle Scott-Haughton and Katherine Bond of the BBC; and Holly Jackson and Poppy Cogan. International sales are being arranged by BBC Studios, that negotiated the co-production agreement with Netflix and ZDFneo.
Season two is scheduled to debut on the BBC and on Netflix (where it is supported) in the rest of the world. In Germany it will only be displayed on ZDFneo. In Australia it will only be available on Stan.
Among these pictures includes the one depicting the appearance of Emma Myers back as Pip Fitz-Amobi, the character that was originally introduced in the bestselling novels by Holly Jackson on which the show is adapted.
In the meantime another of the other images reveals that KAOS star Misia Butler will be joining the series in the role of Stanley Forbes, a character with links to the fringes of the investigation, and whose association is capable of being more than skin deep.
Another reveals Eden Hambelton-Davies as Tell Me Everything which is a brother of Connor Reynolds played by Jude Morgan-Collie. Jamie is labeled as a local musician and he is quiet but popular when he abruptly goes missing shocking the surrounding people.
Lastly, an additional fourth photograph presents MobLand lead actor Jack Rowan to the viewer as Charlie Green, the new neighbour of Pip and also a character that is sucked into the centre of the crime that is being unfolded in Little Kilton.
They are the new cast members of season 2 who have been announced: Anna Brindle (The Outs), Peter Sullivan (Around the World in 80 Days), Freddie Thorp (Fate: The Winx Saga), Lu Corfield (The Crow Girl), Stephanie Street (Breathtaking) and Freddie England.
They will be alongside on-set regulars such as Morgan-Collie, Zain Iqbal, Henry Ashton, Asha Banks and Yali Topol Margalith.
Writer of the series and the author of the books, Jackson said in a statement: I am so excited to welcome a couple of new and tremendously talented actors to the AGGGTM family. As our Jamie Eden is sensational, he is there all the time, though he is not there.
Misia is the ideal Stanley Forbes as she gives a really heart wrenching performance. And Jack as Charlie Green is just a knock out: I had to applaud at the monitors. You wait and see.”
And the synopsis of the second season, release date of which is not decided yet, goes the following way: The first-season investigation has changed Pip ever since and not necessarily positively. It is up to Pip to make it right – and avoid involvement in further probes.
However as the trial date of Max Hastings becomes near Jamie, the brother of Connor goes missing and Pip is on a time bound task of locating Jamie. This becomes a new mystery that will lead Pip to unknown locations as she battles out the concept of justice that only leads her more out of the good girl she used to be.”
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