The Gold season 2: release date, recaps, cast, plot, trailer, interviews and everything we know

The Gold season 2, which continues the police hunt for the gold stolen in the infamous 1983 Brink's-Mat robbery, is now officially on the way in 2025.

With The Gold season 1 proving such a huge hit for BBC1 in 2023, fans will be delighted to again see Hugh Bonneville as detective Brian Boyce trying to get justice in the 1980s. Also back for The Gold season 2 are Charlotte Spencer, Emun Elliott, Jack Lowden, Tom Cullen, Stefanie Martini, Peter Davison, Amanda Drew, Silas Carson and Sam Spruell. But there are new cast too including Tom Hughes, Stephen Campbell Moore, Joshua McGuire, Joshua Samuels and Tamsin Topolski.

Here's everything we know about The Gold season 2...

The Gold season 2 release date

The Gold season 2 will start on BBC One from Sunday, June 8, 2025, at 9 pm. The whole series drops as a box set on BBC iPlayer on Sunday, June 8. And also, you can stream the first season on BBCiPlayer, along with a whole host of shows; here are our recommendations of the best BBC dramas if you're looking for something new to watch while you wait.

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The Gold season 2 plot

The final scenes of the first series set up the second, with the cops realizing they'd only tracked down half the gold. Now for The Gold season 2, the BBC teases: "Following the conviction of some of those involved in the theft and handling of the Brink’s-Mat gold, the police (Hugh Bonneville, Charlotte Spencer, Emun Elliot) realized that those criminals only ever had half of it. Series two explores what happened to the other half, and the criminal fortune it created. As the police investigation continues, it becomes a tense, high-stakes journey into international money laundering and organized crime, while the police embark on dramatic manhunts as they desperately try to solve the longest and most expensive investigation in the history of the Metropolitan Police."

Is there a trailer?

Yes at long last there's a trailer for The Gold season 2 which shows how the hunt for the robbers and the gold bullion continued. Take a look below...

The Gold - Series 2 | Trailer - BBC - YouTube

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The Gold season 2 returning cast

Hugh Bonneville (Brian Boyce), Charlotte Spencer (Nicki Jennings), Emun Elliott (Tony Brightwell), Tom Cullen (John Palmer), Stefanie Martini (Marnie Palmer) and Sam Spruell (Charlie Miller) all return as well as Jack Lowden as Kenneth Noye, now out of prison, Peter Davison (Assistant Commissioner Gordon Stewart), Amanda Drew (CS Cath McClean) and Silas Carson (Harry Bowman).

New cast joining The Gold season 2

The Gold season 2 has a number of new cast, including Tom Hughes (The English, Victoria) as Logan Campbell, Stephen Campbell Moore (Masters of the Air, Criminal Record), Joshua McGuire (Cheaters, Blitz) as Douglas Baxter, Tamsin Topolski (The Madness, Slow Horses), Joshua Samuels (Saltburn, Sexy Beast), Rochelle Neil (Three Little Birds) as Kadene, The Nevers), Antonia Desplat (Shantaram, Modi), Lorna Brown (The Witcher, Vampire Academy), Thomas Coombes (Baby Reindeer, Boiling Point), Sean Teale (Doctor Odyssey, Rosaline) and Olivia Grant (Stardust, All the Money in the World).

The Gold season 2 cast: who's who including the new characters

Hugh Bonneville on playing Brian Boyce in The Gold season 2

On returning as Brian Boyce for The Gold Season 2, Hugh Bonneville says: "Gold is a mysterious metal. It’s been around forever, has survived every economic crash and adorns bodies all around the world. It’s synonymous with luxury and wealth. If you’ve got gold, you’re associated with the Midas touch. That’s the myth and the allure of this extraordinary commodity. So, when a huge robbery involving gold takes place, your imagination is immediately sparked. In series one we learned about the process of smelting, bringing the proceeds to market, laundering the profits of the sale, and the effect of that money on people and on the economy. Goodies and baddies, cops and robbers.

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In series two we see the ripple effect of even more gold being smelted and even more money being laundered. Our principal characters return and we see the effect the gold is having on them and the impact the proceeds of the robbery has around the world.

Because the money is spreading so far and wide it proves increasingly difficult for Boyce and his team to keep up, especially as their operation - already criticised for being the most expensive in police history - is facing pressure to scale back in the face of limited results. As far as his superiors are concerned, Boyce hasn’t put enough of the bad guys behind bars.

In reality the police investigation, extraditions and trials went on for a good ten years after the initial robbery and within that time Boyce was facing retirement. He so wanted to finish the job before retirement came but it wasn’t to be. So that pressure underlies Boyce’s story, as does the pressure from ‘upstairs’ to produce results, as the perceived runaway costs of the investigation are weighed against the apparently diminishing returns. Dogged police work wins the day."

Sam Spruell on playing Charlie Miller in The Gold series 2

Sam Spruell says: "Charlie Miller is an amalgam of various alleged southeast London criminals involved in the Brink’s-Mat robbery, he is no one specific. You see Charlie really at the end of the first series as he’s one of the Brink’s-Mat robbers. He ends up at the beginning of the second series in possession of half the gold. Throughout the first series the police thought they were dealing with all the gold but actually there is another half that Charlie Miller kept for himself.

"Whereas the first series was about melting the gold and then cleaning it by reintroducing it into the system for money, this series is more about laundering money internationally. I think Charlie certainly has aspirations to be a more legitimate businessman. Through his criminal network in south London, of which Charlie has been a part of for years, he discovers the presence of Baxter who is cleaning small amounts of money for establishments like pubs and other places like that in south London. Charlie sees this guy with his Cambridge education as the right man to clean a very large amount of money that he is going to make from getting rid of this gold.

"When you have a lot of gold that’s as pure at the Brink’s-Mat gold you have got to make it dirty because it’s too clean and too recognisable as the Brink’s-Mat gold. Having hidden it for years, Charlie then takes it out of hiding and transports it to a traveller community. They melt it down with other metal to make this pure gold dirty. This dirty gold then goes to a jeweller who melts it down again and integrates it into the system of goldsmiths and people who deal with jewellery and all things fine. It disappears into the system and money is made from that. That money must be cleaned because you can’t just kind of put lots of money into a bank, otherwise people will ask where it has come from and that’s when you start getting into hot water. So, you need to introduce that money into a financial system. Baxter is the initial point man for that but in the end, it takes someone with Logan Campbell’s clout to put that back into the financial situation in terms of investments in all kinds of stuff, whether it be fossil fuels, a new business venture or housing companies, for example."

Behind the scenes and more on The Gold season 2

Filming on The Gold season 2 began in January 2024. The Gold series 2 is a 6-parter commissioned by Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC Drama, and is produced by Tannadice Pictures, the joint venture set up by Neil Forsyth and Objective Fiction, part of Objective Media Group, an All3Media Company, for the BBC. It is produced in association with All3Media International. It is written by Neil Forsyth (Guilt, Eric, Ernie & Me), directed by Patrick Harkins (Tin Star, Guilt) with Charlie Leech (Bounty Hunters, Lovesick) returning as producer. Executive producers are Neil Forsyth and Ben Farrell for Tannadice Pictures, with Nick Lambon for the BBC.

Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC Drama says: "We’re immensely proud to partner with Neil Forsyth and the team to continue the story of The Gold. Millions of viewers across the U.K. were enthralled with its gripping and confident exploration of the fallout from the notorious Brink’s-Mat robbery and, as we saw, there’s still so much more left for DCS Boyce and the team to uncover."

Neil Forsythe says: "

Some of the new characters this series include Tony Lundy (Stephen Campbell Moore) Douglas Baxter (Joshua McGuire) and Logan Campbell (Tom Hughes).

Douglas Baxter is a composite character inspired by some of those involved in the Brink’s-Mat story. Baxter is an Isle of Man financial advisor who gets brought into the story by Charlie Miller and he ends up being part of an extensive money laundering chain that stretches all the way to the Caribbean. He's a really interesting character in our show, and I think he’s brilliantly played by Joshua McGuire.

Logan Campbell is also a composite character inspired by of some of those involved with the Brink’s-Mat criminal enterprises, in this case - the laundering of a huge amount of money that was produced by the proceeds of the Brink’s-Mat robbery. He was already criminally minded, laundering money for a South American drug cartel in the Caribbean. As a result, his involvement creates a very complicated and very dangerous turn in the Brink’s-Mat story. For me, it was a wonderful find in the research and a really interesting aspect. You almost couldn’t get further away from the Brink’s-Mat Heathrow depot than the Caribbean, and having this well-respected member of the expat community that ended up laundering Brink’s-Mat money was fascinating.

The Brink’s-Mat investigation, at the time, was the longest and most expensive investigation in Scotland Yard history. In the latter years, the team was depleted, and we represent that in our show where we really stripped back the police operation to our three main police characters – Brian Boyce (Hugh Bonneville), Tony Brightwell (Emun Elliott) and Nicki Jennings (Charlotte Spencer) – joined by the new arrival of Tony Lundy (Stephen Campbell Moore). Having that stripped back police operation gives it a real narrative purity, as they are bound together at that point and just have to see it to the end. I think they did so much brilliant detective work, but it was such a complicated case and they were learning as they went. That’s the other thing with Brink’s-Mat, the same as series one, they’re learning new forms of investigation as they go. They were having to form new alliances, they end up working with the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) in this series, for example. It was such a nimble fast-moving investigation. For me, that was a gift in terms of the energy it gives the show."