Vigil spoilers follow.
There's good news for Vigil fans as the submarine show has been renewed for a second season.
The record-smashing BBC drama will return for another instalment, following Suranne Jones' DCI Amy Silva investigating a suspicious death aboard a nuclear-powered vessel.
While that mystery appeared to have been solved in the season one finale, it is not clear what Amy will be involved in in this second instalment and if her rekindled romance with DS Kirsten Longacre (Game of Thrones' Rose Leslie) is meant to last. What is certain is, if the central mystery is anything like the first season's, fans are in for a tense, thrilling ride.
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Despite not knowing where they'll be headed in a second season, it has been revealed that Jones and the rest of the crew will return to Scotland for filming. Whether they will be back at sea, it is another matter.
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According to writer Tom Edge, it looks like the second season of Vigil could trade the constrained space of a submarine for something a little different – and drier, perhaps?
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"We have probably told as many of the stories as we would wish to tell on a submarine," he told RadioTimes.com.
"[But] some of the characters that we have developed as we've made it, they feel like characters that we'd love to burrow into. So if there's a will to do it from everyone else then certainly I would be up for it."
Vigil isn't the only BBC series that has been recently renewed, as Martin Freeman drama The Responder, Jamie Dornan thriller The Tourist, and the prison drama Time will also all be given a second season.
Vigil is available to buy now on DVD. You can also catch up on the series via BBC iPlayer.
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