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Darby & Joan is sticking round for extra. Acorn TV has renewed the collection for a second season. Bryan Brown and Greta Scacchi star within the collection as former cop Jack Darby and English nurse Joan Kirkhope who meet within the Australian outback and examine a number of mysteries.
“AMC Networks’ Acorn TV and manufacturing companion CJZ in the present day introduced a season two fee of hit thriller drama, Darby and Joan, alongside information of huge gross sales to new platform companions globally.
Darby and Joan stars Emmy-nominee Bryan Brown (Boy Swallows Universe, Anybody However You, Cocktail) and Emmy winner Greta Scacchi (Rasputin, Battle and Peace, Our bodies) as former cop Jack Darby and English nurse Joan Kirkhope, respectively, who collide within the Australian outback and turn out to be entangled in a string of intriguing mysteries. Forming an unlikely investigative duo, they shortly realise the best thriller they face is one another.
Season two, which is able to movie mid-year in Australia, finds Jack and Joan on the hunt for the one individual Jack believes can reveal the reality about his mysterious previous. Jack and Joan quickly understand they aren’t alone on this journey and their quest turns into a race towards time. However can they actually discover the reality in any case these years? Or will their seek for solutions solely unearth extra questions?
Darby and Joan has persistently been a prime performer on Acorn TV’s worldwide streaming platform since its launch in 2022 and has since been launched on further channels within the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, the U.Okay., Japan, Israel, Jap Europe and others. The title has now been acquired by UKTV within the U.Okay., BBC Studios in Benelux, AXN Thriller Channel in Japan, Community 4 in Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovak Republic, and Disney Channel in CEE (Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia). It additionally aired to stellar rankings on Australia’s ABC TV in January 2024.
“We’re delighted at how properly Darby and Joan has been obtained by worldwide broadcasters. Gross sales in Japan, Scandinavia, Jap Europe, Benelux and the UK reveal that audiences have a robust urge for food for gentle, entertaining, good high quality crime collection. The magnificent Australian backdrop frames this charming drama and its likable characters. We’re very excited in regards to the arrival of collection two and grateful to our companions at CJZ,” stated Vanessa Jordan, Head of Worldwide Gross sales and Acquisitions, Acorn Media Worldwide.
“From its embryonic state some 10 years in the past, we all the time believed Darby and Joan would turn out to be a favorite crime fixing couple. We’re so happy Acorn might see what we have been making an attempt to say with the collection and have backed it each inch of the way in which because the pitch,” stated Matt Campbell, CEO of CJZ.
“Darby and Joan collection two continues uncovering what Queensland is famend for – our numerous places, expert crew and fantastic display storytelling for world audiences, underpinned by funding from the Queensland Authorities. We’re happy that the solid and crew get to proceed their highway journey on this beloved collection,” stated Jacqui Feeney, CEO Display screen Queensland.
A CJZ Manufacturing, Darby and Joan is an Acorn TV Unique, supported by Display screen Queensland’s Display screen Finance Program. Acorn Media Worldwide is the unique worldwide distributor of the collection.
Darby and Joan collection two is govt produced by Matt Campbell, Claire Tonkin, Catherine Mackin and Bea Tammer, with collection producer Elisa Argenzio and script producer Sarah Smith. Created by Glenys Rowe and Phillip Gwynne, the collection’ writers embody Andrew Anastasios, Giula Sandler, Stephen Vagg, Sarah Smith and David Hannam. Arrange director is Jovita O’Shaughnessy.”
The premiere date for season two of Darby & Joan will probably be introduced later.
What do you suppose? Are you a fan of this Acorn TV collection? Do you intend to look at season two when it arrives?
