BBC Two announces that shooting has begun on series two of detective comedy Vexed, starring Toby Stephens Jane Eyre, Robin Hood, Cambridge Spies who reprises his role as DI Jack Armstrong, paired with Miranda Raison Spooks, Merlin, Married Single Other who plays newly promoted DI Georgina Dixon
Vexed is being filmed in Dublin, Eire, and comprises six 60minute episodes to air later this year The series is created by Howard Overman Misfits with episodes written by Chris Bucknall, James Wood, Steve Coombes and HarryJack Williams
Also returning from series one are Roger Griffiths Holby City, Chef and Ronny Jhutti Survivors, Ideal with Nick Dunning The Iron Lady, The Tudors joining to play Georgina’s father
DI Jack Armstrong Stephens has a new partner in the shape of DI Georgina Dixon Raison Armstrong is charming, disorganised and prone to laziness so it comes as no surprise that sparks fly when he’s partnered with the ambitious and highly efficient Dixon Jack’s best friend, caféowner and excop Tony Griffiths and colleague Naz Jhutti complete the crime solving team Episode one sees the duo tackle the murder of a cocky car salesman, but things are not quite as they seem
Chris Sussman, Executive Producer for the BBC, says quotWe#39re very much looking forward to the return of Vexed The second series promises to be just as much fun as the first, and with Miranda Raison joining Toby Stephens as new partner DI Dixon, we#39re hoping it#39s going to be all guns blazingquot
Jill Green, Executive Producer, Eleventh Hour Films, adds In a recession we need shows that make us laugh, and that’s where Vexed fits in a perfectly distinctive ‘yin yang’ take on modern day life
Vexed has been commissioned by Cheryl Taylor, Controller of Comedy Commissioning and Janice Hadlow, Controller of BBC Two
It is an Eleventh Hour Films production, executive producers are Chris Sussman for the BBC and Jill Green for Eleventh Hour Films Produced by Eve Gutierrez for Eleventh Hour Films and Directed by Ian FitzGibbon eps 13 and Kieron J Walsh eps 46
