'Luna + Sophie' Season 2 to Broadcast on PBS Stations in July

It's been over a year since Luna + Sophie, renamed from its original German title SOKO Potsdam, arrived as a binge-watch on PBS Passport in April 2022. The German language series debuted simultaneously with Annika's first season on PBS Passport, and both women-fronted police procedural series have proved popular series with members. Luna + Sophie was so popular it was among the first selected to be part of the PBS' Thursday night national schedule lineup in the fall of 2022. Now, with Season 3 having been added to PBS Passport in March 2023, Season 2 is heading for linear broadcast.

SOKO Potsdam is a spinoff of one of Germany's most popular police procedurals of all time, SOKO München. ("SOKO" stands for "Sonderkommission," which translates to "special investigative team.") München initially debuted in 1978 and only recently ended in 2020 after a 42-year run. There have been eleven spinoffs, starting with 1997's Solo für Sudmann. The rest have all followed the format of the parent program with their titles since 2001, including SOKO Leipzig, SOKO Kitzbühel, SOKO Köln, SOKO Wismar, SOKO Donau, SOKO Rhein-Main, SOKO Stuttgart, SOKO Hamburg, and SOKO Linz.

SOKO Potsdam is a relatively recent addition, launched in 2018 at the same time as SOKO Hamberg. Unlike many of the SOKO series, this one is warmer and more charming, with Caroline Erikson and Katrin Jaehne as childhood BFFs Luna Kunath and Sophie Pohlmann, who grew up together and now solve crimes together. The family atmosphere is one of the reasons it was singled out for the Walter Presents anthology series and renamed Luna + Sophie after its lead characters to separate it from its SOKO brethren.