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As ITV has not officially renewed The Long Call for a second season, we don\u2019t have a release date yet \u2013 but that doesn\u2019t stop us from taking an educated guess at when we might expect the drama\u2019s return.<\/p>\n
The first season was commissioned back in November 2020 and began filming on location in North Devon in April 2021, which means the whole process from script to screen took just under a year.<\/p>\n
If the same time scale is followed for season two, then the earliest we can expect The Long Call\u2019s return to be is October 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n
The Long Call season 2 cast<\/strong><\/h2>\n
If The Long Call is renewed for a second season, we\u2019re almost certainly going to see Ben Aldridge return as detective Matthew Venn, as well as Pearl Mackie as DS Jen Rafferty and Dylan Edwards as DC Rosa Pritchard.<\/p>\n
As it\u2019s likely that season two will focus on a new case with a new line-up of suspects, we won\u2019t know until closer to the time which stars will be joining the cast \u2013 however, it\u2019s possible that Juliet Stevenson could return to play Matthew\u2019s mother Dorothy, who\u2019d become the leader of the Barum Brethren following Dennis and Grace\u2019s arrests.<\/p>\n
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In the season one finale, Matthew and his team got to the bottom of Simon Walden\u2019s death, learning that it was Grace (Anita Dobson) who killed Simon after being convinced to do so by her abusive husband Dennis (Martin Shaw).<\/p>\n
While season two \u2013 if commissioned by ITV \u2013 is likely to look at a new case, we have an idea of what it could be as Ann Cleeves published the second book in the Matthew Venn series earlier this year.<\/p>\n
The Heron\u2019s Cry follows Matthew as he\u2019s sent to a rural crime scene at the home of a group of artists, where Dr Nigel Yeo \u2013 a close friend of Matthew\u2019s husband Jonathan \u2013 has been stabbed.<\/p>\n
According to the book description, Matthew can tell the murder has been staged and that the murder weapon was a shard of glass from one of Yao\u2019s daughter Eve\u2019s broken vases.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen another body is found \u2013 killed in a similar way. Matthew finds himself treading carefully through the lies that fester at the heart of his community and a case hat is dangerously close to home,\u201d the description reads.<\/p>\n
The Long Call is available to stream on ITV Hub.\u00a0<\/strong>Visit our TV Guide<\/a> to see what\u2019s on tonight,\u00a0or check out the rest of our Drama<\/a> coverage.<\/strong><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n
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