BritBox Confirms 'Death Valley' Season 2 Already in Production

One of the brightest spots of the 2020s has been the uptick in British cozy crime shows on American streaming services. Thus far in 2025, it has been an embarrassment of riches on both Acorn TV and BritBox over the last five months, including (but not limited to) Ludwig, Art Detectives, I, Jack Wright, Irish Blood, and Death Valley. Ludwig was already renewed before it was announced for BritBox. However, the others have all been waiting patiently for recommissioning announcements, even though all have been pretty sizeable hits with U.S. audiences. Thankfully, Death Valley fans have been given a reprieve from the endless wait for news with the announcement that filming for Season 2 is underway.

A Welsh spin on the amateur detective & police sergeant trope, Death Valley takes a cue from the American hit Only Murders in the Building, making its amateur detective a retired actor, famous for starring in a long-running police procedural, Caesar, for the bulk of his career. (One assumes it's the British answer to Brazzos.) Unlike the American series, the actor in question, John Chapel, played by Timothy Spall, is well aware that playing a detective on TV does not necessarily qualify him to solve murders.

But people believe what they see on TV, and DS Janie Mallowan, played by Gwyneth Keyworth, has watched every episode of Caesar multiple times and genuinely believes her TV idol can help her. The result is an often hilarious mismatch of a retired actor and an insecure cop trying to solve murders, and yet, somehow, they nail the bad guy every time.