BBC1 trusts Red with S2 of medical drama

Jodie Whittaker in the first season of Trust Me

BBC1 in the UK has renewed its Red Production Company-produced thriller Trust Me for a second season.

The show premiered on the UK pubcaster in August last year and stars Jodie Whittaker, who has since been confirmed as the new Doctor Who.

The second 4×60’ season will feature an entirely new cast and storyline, having been greenlit by Piers Wenger, controller of BBC Drama, and Gaynor Holmes, BBC Drama commissioning executive for Scotland.

Written and created by screen writer and NHS doctor Dan Sefton and produced by StudioCanal-owned Red, the new run will be set in the neurological ward of a Scottish hospital, focusing on a soldier who was the sole survivor of an attack in Syria. While recovering from a spinal injury that has left him paralysed, the soldier faces a new enemy as people on the ward start to die unexpectedly around him.

Nicola Shindler, founder and executive producer of Red Production Company, said: “Dan’s personal experience working in the medical profession combined with his exceptional writing, make the second series of Trust Me every bit as compelling as the first.”