'The Tourist' Season 2 To Tour Ireland

After spending Season 1 lost in the Australian Outback (in more ways than one), Jamie Dornan (Belfast) and Danielle Macdonald (Dumplin') will relocate for The Tourist's second season. The BBC announced the new season began filming in April 2023, but not down under as audiences had anticipated. Instead, the series will move its setting to Ireland now that Dornan's character, Elliot, once again knows who he is and needs to track down the rest of his history. The series still has multiple mysteries to uncover as Elliot backtracks to find the life he's forgotten.

Season 1 of The Tourist began when Elliot woke up with amnesia in an Australian hospital. His accent and possessions were enough that he was pegged as a Northern Irish man, but beyond that, he had no memory of who he was or how he got there. Over the season, Elliot found himself working with a woman who claimed her name was Luci Miller (Shalom Brune-Franklin) and PC Helen Chambers (Danielle Macdonald) to use what few clues he has to discover his identity, even as his violent past quickly begins to catch up with him.

The series ended with the horrific discovery that Elliot was not the hero of the story. He is, in fact, a heroin smuggler who murdered and disfigured with impunity. Devasted at learning who he is and what he's done, Elliot decides to take his own life, with the series ending on a cliffhanger on whether or not he succeeded. At the time, with the show only booked for one run of episodes and most of the characters other than Chambers deceased or leaning that way, it seemed destined to be a limited series. But the ratings on the BBC and iPlayer were enough for the production to get a greenlight to continue.