Acorn TV Renews 'Signora Volpe' For Season 2

It's been over a year since Signora Volpe was initially released on Acorn TV in May 2022. The Italian-set series is about disillusioned British spy Sylvia Fox (Emilia Fox), who attempts to retire to the Mediterranean and reconnect with her family, only to have those plans disrupted by her inability to stop solving crimes. Acorn TV initially commissioned the spy-turned-detective series in April 2021, and at three feature-length episodes, it was an easy lift to film in Italy that summer for a 2022 release. However, with little coverage and no news post-streaming, it seemed destined to be a one-season wonder.

However, in June 2023, Acorn TV announced the show was returning for another set of episodes, complete with a picture of Fox holding the clapper to indicate the start of filming. The new season will again consist of three feature-length episodes written by the series creators, Rachel Cuperman and Sally Griffiths, who are Midsomer Murders veterans.

The show's first season kicked off with Sylvia, a cynical M-I6 operative looking for a way out of the spy game, heading to a village in Umbria to attend her niece's wedding and spend time reuniting with her sister Isabel (Tara Fitzgerald). Of course, wherever you go, there you are, and soon Sylvia is working a local murder investigation alongside the handsome and available Carabinieri Captain Giovanni Riva (Giovanni Cirfiera). The series turns into a bit of a will-they-or-won't-they, as the sisters struggle to have a relationship, with Isabel waiting for Sylvia to disappear on her again, or worse, never come home.