UKTV’s Alibi, Masterpiece fish out a second season of Scottish crime drama Annika

Annika follows murder cases on the waterways of Scotland

UKTV-owned crime drama channel Alibi and US broadcaster Masterpiece have co-commissioned a second season of detective series Annika.

The series stars Nicola Walker (The Split) as a sharp, witty and enigmatic detective leading the Marine Homicide Unit (MHU) investigating unexplained, brutal and seemingly unfathomable murders that wash up in the waterways of Scotland.

Based on the BBC Radio 4 drama Annika Stranded written by Nick Walker, the series is produced by Black Camel and distributed by All3Media International, which sold the first season to a number of international broadcasters.

These have since been joined by buyers including Sky Deutschland and ZDF in Germany, AXN in Spain, Warner Bros Discovery in Italy, RSI in Italian-speaking Switzerland, Siminn hf in Iceland, HRT in Croatia, Cosmote in Greece, BritBox in South Africa and Australia, Sky in New Zealand and Wowow in Japan.

Arabella Page Croft, of Black Camel Pictures, said the new episodes “will see Annika and her brilliant MHU uncover bodies in Edinburgh, Glasgow and as far as the Hebridean island of Jura, keeping in high literary company with the likes of Robert Louis Stevenson, George Orwell and Walter Scott to help solve the cases. Nick Walker is again at the helm, so this series promises more twisty crimes and grisly reveals while delving into our exciting serial hooks from the first series.”