The Missing was one of the biggest new TV hits of 2015, so you'd have to be a brave person to join its second series - and hope that it doesn't 'do a Broadchurch'.

Keeley Hawes knows all too well what it's like to come into an already-successful drama. She did Ashes to Ashes after Life on Mars, and she joined Line of Duty's second series after a critically-acclaimed first run.

Now she's about to do it again with the second series of The Missing later this year, in which she and David Morrissey play a couple whose daughter goes... missing. But how does she feel about the prospect?

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"I've done it before!" she told Digital Spy. "I did it with Line of Duty and Ashes to Ashes. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

"But also this is a completely standalone story, so it can't really be compared to the old story. I haven't yet seen the first series, so it stands on its own."

Speaking about the new series, she added that she was excited to be working with Morrissey again: "I did a Dickens years and years ago with him, Our Mutual Friend.

"We were both very baby-faced in that. I haven't worked with him since. But he's lovely, such a terrific actor, and I'm very lucky to be part of it."

Tchéky Karyo will return as charismatic detective Julien Baptiste for the new episodes, again written by Harry and Jack Williams. Series two will also be split across two timelines - 2014 and the present.

The first BAFTA-winning series of The Missing starred James Nesbitt as an obsessive father hunting for his missing son Ollie.

Nesbitt is not expected to appear in the second series, which will air on BBC One in the UK and on Starz in the US.

Keeley Hawes will next be seen in upcoming ITV comedy drama The Durrells, which is expected to launch in April.

Watch a chilling teaser trailer for The Missing series two right here: