BritBox's 'The Tower' Will Return for a Second Season

ITV's The Tower didn't make a big splash in the US when BritBox picked it up last December. But the three-part crime thriller drama was a critical darling, with the all-too-rare 100% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Based on Kate London's debut novel, Post Mortem, the mystery revolved around investigating the demise of a veteran police officer and a teenage girl. They were killed when they fell from the roof of a tower block of flats. In the wake of the tragedy, the show's driver was the search for those who witnessed it, a five-year-old boy and a rookie police officer.

The only issue is that the story was a bit of a one-and-done. Kate London has two more novels in her The Metropolitan series, but the mysteries are utterly unconnected. However, ITV has decided to forge ahead in adapting them, with The Tower II: Death Message greenlit for next year. Gemma Whelan (Killing Eve) is confirmed to return as DS Sarah Collins, with Tahirah Sharif (The Haunting of Bly Manor) as her rookie partner, PC Lizzie Adama. Emmett J Scanlan (Kin) and Jimmy Akingbola (Kate & Koji)  will return as Inspector Kieran Shaw and DC Steve Bradshaw, respectively.

Based on London's follow-up novel of the same name, the new series will again focus on "a mother and daughter in peril, and two police officers who set out to save them." That being said, the details of the novel are already obviously changed. The cold case Collins becomes obsessed with in the book is from 1987. The mother in question has been waiting for over a quarter-century to find out what happened to her child. The new synopsis reveals the series has updated the story to the late 1990s, with the child disappearing on the day of Princess Diana's funeral.