Ludwig | BBC renews crime drama for series 2

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David Mitchell and Anna Maxwell Martin will return in for Ludwig series 2. More news can be found below these words.


David Mitchell has become a familiar face in UK comedy, whether trying to discern who’s telling the truth in Would I Lie To You? or as the uptight Mark Corrigan alongside long time comedy partner Robert Webb in Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain’s Peep Show.

He also took on the role of William Shakespeare in Ben Elton’s sitcom Upstart Crow, and reprised the role for a stage adaptation that opened in 2020 and then again when the play was restaged in 2022.

Just as Alan Davies took a left turn from stand-up comedy to drama in David Renwick’s superb Jonathan Creek, Mitchell recently moved into the realm of crime drama to play the title role in six part BBC series Ludwig.

Anna Maxwell Martin co-stars as Lucy Betts-Taylor, John’s sister-in-law and wife of his missing brother James. Other cast members include Dipo Ola, Gerran Howell, Izuka Hoyle, Dylan Hughes and Dorothy Atkinson.

The BBC – of the back of the success of the first – has now commissioned Ludwig series 2, with Mitchell, Maxwell Martin and writer Mark Brotherhood all returning.

The synopsis for the show reads as follows:

When John ‘Ludwig’ Taylor’s (David Mitchell) identical twin, James, disappears off the face of the earth, John takes over his brother’s identity in a quest to discover his whereabouts. John has never married, never had a family and never really ventured further than his own front door. Without a computer, mobile phone or even a television, he lives in quiet solitude, designing puzzles for a living, under the nom-de-plume of ‘Ludwig’.However, filling the shoes of your identical twin is one thing – when your twin also happens to be a successful DCI leading Cambridge’s busy inner-city major crimes team the stakes are much higher. John may be a master of all things cryptic, but can he crack the biggest puzzle of his life?

You can stream the first series of Ludwig on BBC iPlayer.

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