The Night Manager Season 2 with Hiddleston moves beyond novel

The BBC and Prime Video on Monday released first-look images and confirmed a second season of The Night Manager, with Tom Hiddleston returning as former intelligence operative Jonathan Pine. The new season, scheduled to air on BBC One in the United Kingdom and to stream on Prime Video internationally, continues Pine’s story in an original storyline that moves beyond the source novel by John le Carré. No premiere date has been announced.

Created and executive produced by David Farr and directed by Georgi Banks-Davies, the six-episode season was developed by The Ink Factory in partnership with several international production companies. Filming took place across the United Kingdom, Spain, Colombia and France. The first season, which aired in 2016, received multiple awards, including Emmys, Golden Globes and BAFTAs, and earned Hiddleston a Best Actor prize.

In the new story, Pine is living under the alias Alex Goodwin and running a low-level MI6 surveillance unit in London when a chance sighting of a former mercenary draws him back into espionage. That encounter brings him into conflict with Teddy Dos Santos, a Colombian businessman played by Diego Calva, and leads Pine to Colombia...