‘This City Is Ours’ Season 2 Teaser Introduces New Enemies
The series adds Shaun Evans and Álvaro Morte for Season 2.
This City is Ours took so long to find an American distributor in AMC+ that Season 2 had already been greenlit and filmed by the time it debuted in the spring of 2026. Ironically, filming was confirmed by the BBC as underway – along with the Season 2 casting additions – in October 2025, only days after we went on hiatus, which is how come we missed the Sean-for-Shaun trade happening right under our noses.
When This City Is Ours announced Sean Bean (Game of Thrones) would lead the series as gangster-near-retirement Ronnie Phalen, most fans had a feeling Bean was cast because this was another of his one-season wonder specials. Bean has made a career of dying creatively on screen, and it’s not really a spoiler to tell you that he does indeed fail to survive the first season.
However, Season 2 will not be un-Seaned (un-Shauned?) The new season has added a major PBS favorite to the all-star lineup, with Shaun Evans (Endeavour) as an old friend of Ronnie’s, newly out of prison and here to make trouble for Michael.
Here’s the Season 2 synopsis:
Picking up from where things were left at the end of series one, Michael and Diana have barely arrived in Spain when they are dragged back into the fold to answer questions around Ricardo’s death. Back in Liverpool, tensions continue to bubble amongst the remaining members of the gang. Meanwhile, an old school gangster from Ronnie's era, recently out of prison, wants compensation from the firm.
James Nelson Joyce (A Thousand Blows) returns as Michael Kavanagh, alongside most of the Season 1 ensemble, including Hannah Onslow (This Is Going to Hurt) as his partner Diana; Jack McMullen (Hijack) as rival Jamie Phelan; Julie Graham (Time) as Jamie’s mother Elaine Phelan; Mike Noble (The Long Shadow) as Michael’s lieutenant, Banksey, and Saoirse-Monica Jackson (Derry Girls) as Diana’s BFF, Cheryl Crawford. Season 2 also sees the return of Adam Abbou (Time) as Freddie; Laura Aikman (Archie) as Rachel Duffy, Kevin Harvey (Treason) as Bobby Duffy, and Darci Shaw (The Irregulars) as Melissa Sullivan.
Season 2 will introduce Evans as former gangster Ozzie Thompson, and Álvaro Morte (The Wheel of Time) as the new Colombian cartel head, Felipe Guzman, younger brother of Season 1’s Ricardo.
Stephen Butchard (The Last Kingdom) returns as lead writer on the eight-episode series with Robbie O’Neill. Director Saul Dibb (The Sixth Commandment) returns, this time splitting helming duties with Chris Baugh (In Flight); Simon Maloney and Nathan Juckes producing. Butchard and Dibb executive produce with Andy Harries, Rebecca Hodgson & Sian McWilliams for Left Bank Pictures, and Jo McClellan for the BBC.
This City Is Ours Season 2 is expected to premiere on the BBC before the end of 2026, and follow in the U.S. in early 2027. Season 1 is streaming on AMC+.
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