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*SPOILERS below if you haven’t seen the first series*

The BBC’s Emmy and BAFTA-nominated crime drama The Missing will return for a second season.

But fans of the show are still not going to get any answers regarding the missing Oliver Hughes.

Season one concluded with what many viewers and critics believed was a cliffhanger, but season two will begin a whole new case starring Keeley Hawes and The Walking Dead’s David Morrissey.

Filming has begun on the series which, Variety confirms, will focus on a young British woman who collapses in her German hometown in 2014.

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Her name is Alice Webster and her parents, David and Keeley, have been searching for her for 12 years.

However ‘Alice’s return sends shockwaves through the small community,’ says Variety, and the story will be ‘told in dual timelines, flitting between 2014 and the present day’.

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Tchéky Karyo will return as French missing persons detective Julien Baptiste who will race across Europe to discover more about the murky case that has baffled him for 12 years.

The series will once again be written by Harry and Jack Williams who admitted that during the first season, ‘we began talking about what the show would have been had Oliver Hughes been found’.

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James Nesbitt in The Missing (Picture: BBC)

‘This story grew out of that discussion. It’s the other side of the coin to series one – an exploration of loss, of freedom, of how the past can shape the present in myriad ways that we cannot fully understand,’ they added.

‘It’s bigger, more ambitious, and we’re delighted to have such a brilliantly talented cast joining Julien Baptiste for a new case.’

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BAFTA award-winning director Ben Chanan, the man behind Channel 4’s Cyberbully starring Game Of Thrones star Maisie Williams, will oversee all eight episodes.

The Missing producer Charlie Pattinson said that he was shocked by the reaction he received at the end of season one, as he felt it was clear that James Nesbitt’s Tony knew his son was dead.

‘For me, it was very much about Tony being tortured by never being able to stop searching for his dead son,’ said Charlie.

‘But because there was no body, perhaps that’s why people felt he could still have been alive.’

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