'The Gold' Gets Royal with 'Victoria's Tom Hughes Joining Season 2

One of the biggest series of 2023 in the U.K. was the BBC series The Gold. Initially imagined as a limited series, the six-part small-screen dramatization of the 1983 Brink’s-Mat robbery was a star-studded affair, full of PBS favorites, as is befitting of a show that retold the U.K.'s biggest bank heist in history, in which the thieves made off with £26 million in gold bullion (that translates to ~£87 million/$109 million in today's money, due to inflation) none of which was ever recovered. Considering the show's success, the BBC worked with series creator Neil Forsyth to greenlight a second season that will continue the tale of what happened to all the gold.

However, most Americans did not watch The Gold. The series was made as a co-production with the (very short-lived) Paramount+ UK originals arm, and, considering the very recognizable cast, it was supposed to be the launch series for its international programming. (Less than six months after the show's debut, parent company Paramount all but discontinued its international slate.) Paramount+ was already in trouble before The Gold's Season 1 arrived, and the series' inability to break through on the platform proved how bad things were.

By the time Season 2 was announced, any mention of Paramount+ was conspicuously absent, which was unsurprising as the company was heading for the sale block by then. Luckily, the BBC found a far better partner to take the show on, as Masterpiece stepped up to sign on. (Considering it's where the show belonged all along, this will be a far better fit.)