BritBox has announced the start of filming on the second season of the smash hit comedic whodunit series, Ludwig. (Hooray!)
BAFTA winner David Mitchell (Upstart Crow, Back, Peep Show, That Mitchell and Webb Look) will be back on our screens in the not-too-distant future as John “Ludwig” Taylor, a master puzzle-setter who, in the first season of the fabulous Luwig, took on the identity of his identical twin brother, James, a detective who went missing, in order to find him.
Season 2 finds John is now a Crime Scene Consultant who works on “impossible” crimes for the Cambridge Police Authority. No longer having to masquerade as his brother, he’s openly more “Ludwig” than ever — brilliant at solving puzzles but hopeless at everything else.
But James is still missing. And now that John is an official employee of the station, he is forbidden from using any police resources to look for his brother or uncover exactly what James was investigating before he disappeared. Pfft, a mere technicality that won’t prevent John from doing what needs must to find James. Ditto for John’s sister-in-law, Lucy (Anna Maxwell Martin, Line of Duty, Motherland, The Bletchley Circle). Her husband and the father of their kids needs to be home with his family, so this puzzle needs to be solved, pronto. However, while one masquerade may have ended, a new one has just begun…
Also returning for Season 2 are Dipo Ola (We Hunt Together, McDonald & Dodds) as DCI Russell Carter, Dylan Hughes (Maternal, Malory Towers) as Henry Betts-Taylor, Dorothy Atkinson (Mum, Pennyworth) as DCS Carol Shaw, Ralph Ineson (Chernobyl, Game of Thrones) as Chief Constable Ziegler, and Karl Pilkington (Sick of It, Derek) as DI Matt Neville.
Joining the cast as series regulars are Mark Bonnar (Dept Q, Guilt) as newspaper editor Gareth Fisher, Sian Clifford (Fleabag, Life After Life) as local MP Joanne Kemper, Ben Ashenden (Black Mirror, Hijack) as DC Ethan Cole, and Rumi Sutton (After the Flood, Mutiny) as DC Caitlin Sullivan.
Season 1 of Ludwig was the #1 season premiere in total viewership and unique viewers across BritBox North America in 2025, and the BBC’s biggest scripted show of 2024, as well as the Beeb’s biggest launch for a comedy since at least 2018.
A production of Big Talk Studios in association with That Mitchell And Webb Company, in co-production with BritBox and ZDF, for the BBC, Ludwig is created and written by Mark Brotherhood (Mount Pleasant, Father Brown). The series is produced in association with ITV Studios, which also handles international distribution.
The series was commissioned for BBC One and BBC iPlayer by Jon Petrie, BBC Director of Comedy Commissioning. Season 2 is directed by George Kane (Inside No. 9) and Stella Corradi (Killing Eve). The executive producers are Kenton Allen and Toby Welch for Big Talk Studios, Mark Brotherhood, David Mitchell, Kathryn O’Connor, Chris Sussman; Robert Schildhouse and Stephen Nye for BritBox; and Claus Wunn and Frank Seyberth for ZDF. The producer is Georgie Fallon, with Anya Wilson serving as co-producer. The Commissioning Editor for the BBC is Tanya Qureshi.
Stay tuned for updates about guest stars and premiere details. In the meantime, catch up on Season 1.
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