‘Sherwood’: BBC Sets Season 2 Director As Lesley Manville & David Morrissey Return For Story Set In Present Day
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: James Graham’s BBC drama Sherwood has set three-time BAFTA nominee Clio Barnardas its Season 2 director, as Lesley Manville and David Morrissey confirm they will reprise their roles in a story that will move forward to the present day.
Barnard, who has been BAFTA nominated for Ali & Ava, The Selfish Giant and The Arbor, is lead director and EP on Season 2, which begins filming this summer.
The director, who replaces Lewis Arnold and Ben A. Williams, will oversee a season “navigating the devastating effect of two crimes on the community” in Nottinghamshire, told through a modern-day lens.
She most recently directed Tom Hiddleston and Claire Danes in Apple TV+ drama The Essex Serpent. Deadline can reveal that the new story being penned by Graham will be brought forward to the present day.
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