Karen Pirie Season 2 Premiere Date and Trailer Revealed
BritBox has revealed the official trailer and new photos for Karen Pirie Season 2, which is set to premiere on October 2, 2025. New episodes of the BritBox Original series will air weekly until the finale on October 16.
The 1984 case of Catriona and Adam Grant has confounded investigators and intrigued the public like no other. Catriona, the charming young heiress to a vast oil fortune, and her two-year-old son Adam were brutally kidnapped at gunpoint outside a fish and chip shop in Fife.
The ransom notes that followed stirred up an uncontrollable press storm, but when the culprits fell silent, the police faltered, and Catriona and Adam were never seen again. Now, a man’s body has been discovered, with indisputable links to the original kidnapping.
With the first piece of evidence in decades, Karen (Lauren Lyle) must assemble an unbeatable team alongside her sincere and lovable sidekick DC Jason ‘Mint’ Murray (Chris Jenks) and the brilliant – but romantically complicated – DS Phil Parhatka (Zach Wyatt).
With the international renown of the kidnapping and the constant pressure from Catriona’s father, Sir Broderick Grant (James Cosmo), the team takes on the biggest challenge of their careers to date.
As Karen delves deeper into what happened in the autumn of 1984, political grudges and painful secrets reveal themselves, and it soon becomes clear… the past is far from dead.
In one of the UK’s most-watched dramas, based on celebrated author Val McDermid’s A Darker Domain and adapted by Emer Kenny (The Curse, Save Me Too), Outlander‘s Lauren Lyle leads a returning cast of Chris Jenks (Sex Education, Vigil), Zach Wyatt (Timestalker, The Witcher: Blood Origin), Steve John Shepherd (Harry Potter), Emer Kenny (The Curse), and Rakhee Thakrar (Wonka).
The newcomers for Karen Pirie Season 2 include Saskia Ashdown (Six Four), James Cosmo (Braveheart, Game of Thrones), Frances Tomelty (Unforgotten), and John Michie (Holby City).
Emer Kenny writes Karen Pirie, which is executive produced by Simon Heath and Emma Luffingham at World Productions, Emer Kenny, and Val McDermid. The series is directed by Gareth Bryn, with Amanda Blue directing episode three, and produced by Marcus Wilson.
The show is produced in association with ITV Studios, which handles global distribution. Filming took place in Scotland and Malta. The first season is available to stream now on BritBox.
