'Hidden Assets' Returning to Acorn TV for Season 2

Hidden Assets was a fresh take on the police procedural genre when it arrived on Acorn TV in early 2022. The series was an Irish-Belgian co-production that came at the endless Irish gang mystery trope from a new angle, that of the CAB, the Criminal Assets Bureau, located in Shannon, Ireland, whose job it is not to find the bad guys, but to come in and clean up after they've been caught, repossessing all their ill-gotten gains and possessions bought with monies made from criminal activities. But the series threw in a complication when one of those assets was across the channel in Belgium, necessitating cooperation between countries.

Season 1 starred Belgian actor Wouter Hendrickx as Chief Inspector Christian De Jong and Irish actor Angeline Ball, reprising her role as Detective Emer Berry (a character from RTE's previous series Acceptable Risk). The two made a great odd couple of cops thrown together in a race against time, uncovering a multinational threat, all of which hinged on hardnosed businesswoman Bibi Melnick (Simone Kirby). Season 2 is set in the aftermath of the finale, as Bibi has to pick up the pieces of her life, her husband's horror at what she was involved with, and the loss of her business.

However, retreating to Ireland to regroup may not have been as sound a strategy as she thought. When she learns she needs Detective Berry's help again, she returns to Shannon only to discover a new woman running the CAB division, DS Claire Wallace (Nora-Jane Noone), who has zero interest in helping her.