'Signora Volpe' Season 2 Heats Up Acorn TV In July

At long last, Signora Volpe is finally heading to Acorn TV for Season 2. The series initially premiered in May 2022 on the most popular of the AMC Network niche streaming services, with Emilia Fox (Pride & Prejudice) starring as disillusioned British spy Sylvia Fox, whose retirement to Italy is derailed by her own inability to stop solving crime whenever she finds it. The delightful series was one of many cozy crime shows launched that year in the three feature-length installment format, alongside Murder in Provence and Karen Pirie, which didn't seem to be destined for second seasons. But while Murder in Provence never moved forward, Karen Pirie and Signora Volpe eventually got renewed. After over two years away, the latter has finally landed a release date, and like Acorn TV's other major series, Harry Wild and My Life is Murder, will extend it's run to linear on BBC America.

Like most cozy crimes, the mysteries are less important than the relationships the protagonist navigates and how those mysteries reflect back on them. In the case of Signora Volpe, Fox comes with two strong emotional bonds she's working out. The first is with her younger sister, Isabel (Tara Fitzgerald), whom she moves in with when she decamps from London to Umbria in Italy. She and Isabel have a strained relationship, as Isabel has spent her life being abandoned by her older sister and spends most of the first season bracing for Sylvia to race back to London or, worse, turn up dead in a ditch.

The other relationship is the one Fox builds with the local Carabinieri Captain Giovanni Riva (Giovanni Cirfiera), as she becomes his accidental partner in crime-solving after moving into the neighborhood. Handsome and available, the two quickly establish a will-they-or-won't-they, tempered by Sylvia's known tendencies to suddenly decamp for London or propensities to do things that might leave her dead in a ditch.