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title: 'Acclaimed Smash Hit Ludwig Begins Filming Season 2 for BritBox'
url: 'https://press.britbox.com/post/acclaimed-smash-hit-ludwig-begins-filming-season-2-for-britbox'
author: 'BritBox Media Room'
published: '2025-09-04T13:00:00+00:00'
updated: '2026-07-08T19:32:05+00:00'
description: 'Sian Clifford and Mark Bonnar join the record-breaking crime comedy as series regulars'
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# Acclaimed Smash Hit Ludwig Begins Filming Season 2 for BritBox

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**Sian Clifford and Mark Bonnar join the record-breaking crime comedy as series regulars**

**Filming is now underway on the much-anticipated season two of BritBox's acclaimed detective series Ludwig, starring **David Mitchell** and **Anna Maxwell Martin**, from Big Talk Studios.  
  
Picking up from where things were left at the end of series one, master puzzle-setter John ‘Ludwig’ Taylor (**David Mitchell**) is now a Crime Scene Consultant working on ‘impossible’ crimes for the Cambridge Police Authority. No longer having to masquerade as his brother, he’s openly more ‘Ludwig’ than ever - brilliant at solving puzzles but hopeless at everything else. But John’s identical twin brother, James, is still missing, and now that he’s an official employee of the station, John is forbidden from using any police resources to look for his brother or uncover exactly what he was investigating. Of course, John won’t stop and neither will Lucy (Anna Maxwell Martin), John’s sister-in-law and wife of his missing brother James - a puzzle needs solving and a husband and father needs bringing home. One masquerade may have ended, but a new one has just begun.  
  
Created and written by **Mark Brotherhood**, *Ludwig* is the #1 season premiere in total viewership and unique viewers across BritBox North America in 2025. Season one of the binge-worthy comedy-drama was the BBC’s biggest scripted show of last year (2024), and the biggest launch for a comedy since at least 2018.   
  
Also returning for series two are **Dipo Ola** as DCI Russell Carter, **Dylan Hughes** as Henry Betts-Taylor, **Dorothy Atkinson** as DCS Carol Shaw, **Ralph Ineson** as Chief Constable Ziegler, and **Karl Pilkington** as DI Matt Neville. Joining the cast as series regulars are **Mark Bonnar** (Dept Q, Guilt) as newspaper editor, Gareth Fisher, Sian Clifford (Fleabag, The Ballad of Wallis Island) as local MP, Joanne Kemper, **Ben Ashenden** (Deep Cover, Black Mirror) as DC Ethan Cole, and **Rumi Sutton** (After the Flood, Mutiny) as DC Caitlin Sullivan.   
  
*Ludwig* (6x60’) is a Big Talk Studios production in association with That Mitchell And Webb Company, in co-production with BritBox and ZDF, for the BBC. It is produced in association with ITV Studios, which also handles international distribution. The series was commissioned for BBC One and BBC iPlayer by **Jon Petrie**, BBC Director of Comedy Commissioning. Series two is again written by **Mark Brotherhood**, and the directors are **George Kane** (episodes 1,2 & 3) and **Stella Corradi** (episodes 4, 5 & 6). The executive producers are **Kenton Allen** and **Toby Welch** for Big Talk Studios, **Mark Brotherhood,** **David Mitchell,** **Kathryn O’Connor,** **Chris Sussman**; **Robert Schildhouse** and **Stephen Nye** for BritBox; and **Claus Wunn** and **Frank Seyberth** for ZDF. The producer is **Georgie Fallon**, with **Anya Wilson** serving as co-producer. The Commissioning Editor for the BBC is **Tanya Qureshi**.  
  
Guest stars and premiere details will be announced at a later date.  
  
Season one is available now on BritBox.**