‘Down Cemetery Road’: Apple TV Detective Drama Adds 12 To Season 2

EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV has added 12 to the Season 2 cast of its action thriller Down Cemetery Road.

Martin Clunes (Doc Martin), Fionn Whitehead (Dunkirk), Paterson Joseph (Wonka), Aasiya Shah (Bait), Dimitri Leonidas (Foundation), Paul Chahidi (This Country), Liz White (The Long Shadow), Amanda Abbington (Sherlock), Jeff Rawle (Drop the Dead Donkey), Ashley McGuire (Slow Horses), Amber Grappy (One Day) and Yali Topol Margalith (Alice and Steve) are joining the cast of the Mick Herron book adaptation.

Emma Thompson is exec producer and stars as who plays Zoë Boehm opposite Ruth Wilson, who plays Sarah Tucker. Morwenna Banks (Slow Horses) is returning as lead writer and executive producer.

The series is adapted from Herron’s Oxford book series, with Season 2 based on novels The Last Voice You Hear and Smoke and Whispers. Herron’s other Apple TV adaptation, the Gary Oldman-starring Slow Horses, was recently renewed for an eighth season.

Season 1 launched on Apple TV in October last year. Season 2 sees Boehm (Thompson) and Trafford (Wilson) chasing down another twisted mystery. Per the logline, “After a woman falls in front of a train Zoë is called in to investigate, but this seemingly simple case soon upends her life as she and Sarah find themselves navigating the dark side of the glamorous world of art and antiquities. Matters take a deadly turn when they stumble into the path of a brutal serial killer who will stop at nothing to cover up his crimes.”

60Forty Films is again producing. Banks writing and serving as executive producer alongside Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta, Kate Lewis and Tom Nash at 60Forty, Thompson, and Herron. Börkur Sigþórssen (Insomnia) serves as lead director for the second season.