'Sherwood' Season 2 to Premiere in November as a BritBox Exclusive

The second season of Sherwood finally has a release date for Americans, as BritBox confirms today it will join the streaming service's Thursday night lineup starting in November. The critically acclaimed series from James Graham was a massive hit in the U.K. when it debuted in 2022 and was literally the best show on streaming anywhere in the U.S. that year. Unfortunately, for Americans, BritBox dropped all six episodes at once with Season 1, making it harder to market for the niche service. However, for Season 2, the series will be a weekly rollout with two back-to-back episodes, continuing BritBox's new trend of programming Thursday nights with the best British shows it has to offer.

Season 1 of Sherwood was initially meant to be a close-ended story. Set in two timelines, 1984 and 2004, it traced how Margaret Thatcher's overreach to smash the miner's strikes in northern areas like Nottinghamshire still infused everyday life thirty years after she successfully destroyed the areas now referred to as "Red Wall" towns. (The name refers to the U.K. electoral map, because these areas have gone "red" for Labour, come hell or high water, since Thatcher.) Encompassing everything from the spy cops program to the families set against each other by Tory policies, the true crime series covering the manhunt for the bow-and-arrow killer was a brilliant genre mashup.

However, the success of Season 1 caused Graham to reconsider, and Season 2 will pick back up twenty years later, now in modern-day Sherwood, where the effects of Brexit and a generation of Tory rule have done a new number on these poverty-stricken areas. With several of the A-list cast returning (and many new high-end actors joining the series), Sherwood's second season is one of the BBC's most anticipated releases for 2024.