Published: 07:00 pm, 15 April 2026
First look footage have been launched for the much-anticipated second series of the BBC’s acclaimed detective series Ludwig, starring David Mitchell and Anna Maxwell Martin, which can air later this 12 months on BBC iPlayer and BBC One. Joining the forged as series regulars are Mark Bonnar and Sian Clifford.
Ludwig is created and written by Mark Brotherhood and produced by Big Talk Studios (a part of ITV Studios), in collaboration with That Mitchell and Webb Company. Series one of many binge-worthy comedy-drama is the BBC’s largest scripted series since 2024, and the most important comedy launch episode since a minimum of 2018, attracting over 9.5 million viewers in 28 days.
Picking up from the tip of series one, grasp puzzle-setter John ‘Ludwig’ Taylor (David Mitchell) is now a Crime Scene Consultant, working alongside DCI Russell Carter (Dipo Ola), on ‘impossible’ crimes for the Cambridge Police Authority. No longer having to masquerade as his brother, he’s brazenly extra ‘Ludwig’ than ever – good at fixing puzzles however hopeless at all the pieces else.
But John’s similar twin brother, James, continues to be lacking, and now that he’s an official worker of the station, John is forbidden from utilizing any police assets to look for his brother or uncover precisely what he was investigating.
Of course, John received’t cease and neither will Lucy (Anna Maxwell Martin), John’s sister-in-law and spouse of his lacking brother James – a puzzle wants fixing and a husband and father wants bringing residence. One masquerade might have ended, however a brand new one has simply begun.
Also returning for series two are Dylan Hughes as Henry Betts-Taylor, Dorothy Atkinson as DCS Carol Shaw, Ralph Ineson as Chief Constable Ziegler, and Karl Pilkington as DI Matt Neville.
Joining the forged as series regulars are Mark Bonnar (Dept. Q, Guilt) as newspaper editor Gareth Fisher, Sian Clifford (Fleabag, The Ballad of Wallis Island) as native MP Joanne Kemper, Ben Ashenden (Deep Cover, Black Mirror) as DC Ethan Cole, and Rumi Sutton (After the Flood, Mutiny) as DC Caitlin Sullivan.
Ludwig series two (6×60’) is a Big Talk Studios manufacturing in affiliation with That Mitchell And Webb Company, in co-production with BritBox and ZDF, for the BBC. It is produced in affiliation with ITV Studios, which additionally handles worldwide distribution. The series was commissioned for BBC One and BBC iPlayer by Jon Petrie, BBC Director of Comedy. Series two is once more written by Mark Brotherhood, and the administrators are George Kane (episodes 1,2 & 3) and Stella Corradi (episodes 4, 5 & 6). The government 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 Editors for the BBC are Gregor Sharp and Roya Eslami.
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