Amazon Renews 'The Rig' for Season 2 with Martin Compston & Iain Glen Returning

Prime Video's The Rig is going to keep pumping for oil, as Amazon has announced the series — the first to be filmed entirely in Scotland — is being re-upped for a second season. The series, which begins as a mystery on an oil rig in the middle of the North Sea that could be corporate espionage, suddenly makes a hard right turn into the supernatural, with a touch of topicality involving the ongoing climate crisis. Though the overall plot didn't manage to make a greater whole from the sum of its parts, the stellar cast mostly kept it afloat. The good news is many of them will be back, reprising their roles in Season 2.

Though the series was technically headlined by American actor Emily Hampshire (Schitt's Creek) as Rose Mason, the rest of the ensemble are U.K. based, including Iain Glen (Game of Thrones), Martin Compston (Line of Duty), Mark Bonnar (Guilt), Owen Teale (A Discovery of Witches), Richard Pepple (COBRA), and Mark Addy (The Full Monty) among others. While not all these characters survived the first season, Hasmpshire's Rose Mason did, along with Glen's Magnus MacMillan and Compston's Fulmer Hamilton. All three will be back for the next season.

Despite an aggressive push in marketing the series when it first went into production, Amazon did not try and turn The Rig into a weekly release series, instead dropping all six episodes as a binge-watch in early January 2023, one that came with little fanfare. Between that and the so-so reviews, it seemed unlikely that the series would get another round. However, Deadline confirms the new season is going into production in Scotland, with filming slated for mid to late-2023.