'Blue Lights' Season 2 Lands June Premiere on BritBox

The BBC's new cop dramady, Blue Lights, was a surprise hit when it debuted in the U.K. in 2023. Set in the Belfast frontline response unit, the series' first order of business was always going to have to square convincing its audiences to watch a piece of pro-police television in one of the most notoriously corrupt branches of U.K. policing. The decision to focus on three rookie constables — starting with middle-aged Englishwoman Grace (Siân Brooke) looking to remake her life after twenty years of child-rearing — and then introducing the younger Annie (Katherine Devlin) and sweetheart Tommy (Nathan Braniff), turned out to be the way to go.

By making the series about the new blood coming in to replace and educate the older, jaded, hardened vets who lived through the Troubles (embodied by Richard Dormer as seasoned officer Gerry Cliff), the series managed to nod towards the more enlightened, recalibrated ideas of whether glorifying law enforcement is really the job of our entertainment media and yet do just that. The resulting ratings were such that the BBC Director of Drama did something nearly unheard of for the BBC, and renewed Blue Lights through Season 4 before Season 2 had even debuted.

BritBox was already signed on to the Blue Lights bandwagon before that announcement came, having picked up Seasons 1 and 2 at the end of 2023. With new faces and a new community angle for our rookies to deal with in Season 2, the drama isn't about to let up either.