Filming starts on Last Tango in Halifax 2

By Patrick McLennan
( What's on TV )
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Filming has begun on the second series of hit BBC One drama Last Tango in Halifax, with Derek Jacobi and Anne Reid returning as lovestruck OAPs Alan and Celia.

 

Sarah Lancashire, Nicola Walker (Spooks), Tony Gardner (The Thick of It), Dean Andrews (Life on Mars) and Ronni Ancona will also be back for the six-part drama.

 

Writer Sally Wainwright, who won a BAFTA writing award, said: “The inspiration for Last Tango in Halifax was deeply personal so I am delighted that it also resonated with so many viewers – both young and old. The second series will bring even more dramatic twists, trials and tribulations for the characters with Alan and Celia’s love story continuing to be the beating heart of the series.”

Last Tango in Halifax won the Best Drama Series award at this year’s BAFTAs and was the BBC’s highest rating new mid-week drama of 2012, regularly attracting more than seven million viewers.

 

The second series, currently filming in various locations around the north of England, picks up with Alan (Jacobi) having suffered a serious heart attack and the couple's nuptials hanging in the balance. Will Celia once again lose the love of her life?

 

Patrick McLennan
Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.