According to The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix has renewed crime drama Dept. Q for a second season. The renewal comes almost three months after the series aired on the streamer, after solid reviews and audience numbers.
As per The Hollywood Reporter, Dept. Q, based on novels by Jussi Adler-Olsen (The Hanging Girl, The Absent One), follows Chief Inspector Carl Morck, who leads a small team that works cases that were previously considered unsolvable from a basement office in Edinburgh. created by Scott Frank (The Queen’s Gambit, Godless) the series stars Matthew Goode (The Imitation Game, Freud’s Last Session) as Carl, Chloe Pirrie (Burn Burn Burn, Look the Other Way and Run) as Merritt Lingard, Alexej Manvelov (A Day and a Half, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan) as Akram Salim, Steven Miller (Twelfth Night, Silent Witness) as Sam Haig, Jamie Sives (If Not Now, When?, The Last Manhunt) as James Hardy, Leah Byrne (Dog Squad, Deadwater Fell) as DC Rose Dickson and many others.
“We are going downstairs to Dept. Q for a second season,” said executive producer Rob Bullock (Strike Back, The Night Manager) of Left Bank Pictures via The Hollywood Reporter. “We at Left Bank Pictures nervously await what Scott has in store for his alter-ego Carl Morck, and the other enabling members of team do-lally. We salute Netflix’s courage to let them loose once again.”
Added Frank via The Hollywood Reporter, “I’m grateful to the folks at Netflix, as well as our shining cast and crew, for once more risking their careers to enable my folly.”
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the series spent six weeks in Netflix’s top 10 English-language series worldwide, amassing some 222 million hours. In the United States, it drew 47.57 million hours of viewing over four weeks in Nielsen’s streaming top 10.
As per The Hollywood Reporter, Frank writes, directs and executive produces Dept. Q. Bullock and Charlotte Moore (The Bionic Woman, 3 by Cheever) also executive produce; Mona Qureshi (Our Girl, Showtrial) and Manda Levin (Apple Tree Yard, The Boy with the Topknot) oversee the show for Netflix.
“We are raring to return to Carl Morck and his band of glorious misfits at Dept. Q,” said Qureshi and Levin via The Hollywood Reporter. “Scott Frank brought us best-in-class storytelling and thrilled Netflix audiences worldwide. We can’t wait to see what Morck and the gang uncover in season two.”