Time, Season 2 is a moving, high-stakes portrayal of life in a women’s prison, told through the lens of three very different inmates. The three-part series is led by Jodie Whittaker (Doctor Who, Broadchurch), Tamara Lawrance (The Silent Twins, The Long Song) and Bella Ramsey (The Last of Us, His Dark Materials), with Siobhan Finneran (Happy Valley, Downton Abbey) reprising her role as Marie-Louise, a prison chaplain. The latest installment follows the award-winning success of Season 1, which was set in a men’s prison and starred Sean Bean (Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings) and Stephen Graham (Boardwalk Empire, The Irishman). Time, Season 2 makes its Canadian broadcast debut on April 15 at 9 p.m. ET/ 8:30 PT on BBC First in Canada
Arriving at Carlingford Prison on the same day, Orla (Jodie Whittaker), a struggling single mother of three, who finds herself sent to prison for tampering with the electricity meter in a desperate attempt to keep her children warm, meets Abi (Tamara Lawrance), an inmate doing a life sentence for a crime she’d rather not speak about, and Kelsey (Bella Ramsey), a pregnant teenager with a heroin addiction who has made many questionable choices. The three women are thrown together to face an unfamiliar world of life behind bars. However, even with the ever-present threat of violence within its walls, they discover that an unexpected sense of community and a shared understanding still might be possible.
Time, Season 2 (3×60′) is a BBC Studios production for the BBC, in a co-production with BritBox North America. Additional funding and support comes from the Liverpool Film Office through its Liverpool City Region Production Fund. Filming took place in and around Liverpool. Global distribution is handled by BBC Studios.
The second installment of Time is produced by Mark Hedges (Hanna, The Rising), with executive producers Priscilla Parish, Michael Parke and Andrew Morrissey for BBC Studios, Lucy Richer for the BBC, Reemah Sakaan and Stephen Nye for BritBox North America, and Jimmy McGovern. Time is written by multi-award winning Jimmy McGovern and Helen Black. Season 2 is directed by Andrea Harkin.
