Back to Bergerac: meet the cast, dive into the plot and talk Season 2 with Damien Molony

It’s been 44 years since Bergerac first hit our screens, and Jim Bergerac is stillllll pulling us back in.

After a hugely successful modern day reboot, the Jersey-set detective drama returns with season two on Thursday 16th April – and once again, it’s blending sun-drenched scenery with dark secrets, emotional fallouts and a detective who can’t stop outrunning his own past! Whether you grew up with the original series or discovered Bergerac for the first time last year, this new chapter proves there’s plentyyy more story left to tell.

Here’s everything you need to know about Bergerac season 2, from what season two is all about to who’s joining Damien Molony in the cast and an exclusive interview with Molony himself.

What to expect from Bergerac season 2:

Picking up a few months after the events of season one, Bergerac season 2 sees Jim Bergerac (Damien Molony) attempting to piece his life together. He’s sober, back at work and, with a gentle push from his daughter Kim, cautiously dipping a toe back into the dating pool (even if he’s not fully convinced he’s ready to let someone new in). That sense of uncertainty is only heightened when Kim prepares to leave the island for the mainland, forcing Jim to face the reality of being on his own just as things are starting to feel more settled.

Jim is soon pulled into a major new investigation, when the groom at a wedding reception is found murdered in his hotel room. With the celebration instantly turning sinister, everyone in attendance becomes a suspect. As Jim digs deeper, what starts as a single shocking crime, quickly spirals into a tangled case involving old convictions, buried family secrets and troubling hints of police corruption. Revealing that not everything is quite as picture‑perfect as it seems in Jersey.

Amidst the chaos, Jim meets Nicola, a visitor to the island who brings a flicker of hope back into his life. But when their budding relationship begins to intersect with the case itself, things get complicated fast, raising the stakes both emotionally and professionally. 

Across six episodes, Bergerac season 2 proves secrets never stay hidden for long.

Who’s in the cast of Bergerac season 2?

Damien Molony

Damien Molony (Derry Girls, Brassic) returns as Jim Bergerac, the brilliant but troubled Jersey detective still grappling with grief, recovery and the pressures of the job. Season two sees Molony lean further into Jim’s emotional complexity as he attempts to rebuild his personal life while navigating one of his most challenging cases yet.

Zoë Wanamaker

Joining him once again is nine-time Oliver Award nominee Zoë Wanamaker (Britania, Shadow and Bone) as Charlie Hungerford, Jim’s formidable mother‑in‑law. This season gives Charlie a bigger personal storyline of her own (including an unexpected new romance).

Chloé Sweetlove 

Chloé Sweetlove (The Crow Girl) returns as Kim Bergerac, Jim’s daughter, whose plans to leave Jersey mark a major turning point for her father. 

Robert Gilbert 

Robert Gilbert (Big Boys, Killing Eve) is also back as Barney Crozier, Jim’s colleague, continuing their prickly and often very frustrating double act.

New faces joining the cast for season two include Adrian Edmondson (Rain Dogs, A Spy Among Friends) as Nigel, Charlies new beau, and Lesley Sharp (Red Eye, Scott & Bailey) as Monica. Turlough Convery (Sanditon, Killing Eve) plays Michael, Monica’s son, while Camilla Beeput (The Tower, Hijack) plays Nicola – a visitor to the island whose connection to Jim quickly becomes complicated.

An interview with Damien Moloney on Bergerac season 2:

For anyone who enjoyed series one, what would you say is the one reason they absolutely can’t miss this next chapter?

There are easily five people in this family who could have done it and it's a really thrilling investigation as to who has. It was a massive shocker to me when I read the scripts so that's one reason they should be really excited. Another reason is you get to see this other side of Jim. In series one he was defined by grief, in mourning and his life was falling apart.

His relationship with his daughter is broken down, his relationship with his mother-in-law is broken down and the new series is the building blocks starting to have more of a structural foundation. It's 18 months since his wife passed and his daughter is moving to the mainland, Zoe Wanamaker's character, Charlie Hungerford, she is dating. And so Jim's in real danger of being left behind and is reluctantly dating. I think you get to see this other kind of side of Jim, a very lonely one, but a man trying to kind of get his life back together, and there are definitely glimmers of hope for sure. It's not it's not all doom and gloom. And then, obviously, viewers get to see more of the beautiful island of Jersey.

Jersey feels like it’s own character in the show, has your relationship with the island changed now you’ve spent more time there?

Series one, in the morning you get picked up in the car, and then suddenly you're in a new location. You've no idea how you got there. This year, I’m slowly but surely starting to get my bearings and going on massive runs through these beautiful roads and down into bays and along the cliff paths of the island was magic. And then to go and spend a day shooting on the island, even more so. We arrived on series one as an unknown entity, people knew that the show was being made, but they didn't really know who was playing Bergerac. 

For series 2, it felt a lot more exciting. We were welcomed with open arms in both series, but there was definitely more interest in series 2 and more excitement. I think people were very proud of how well the first series had done and knew how much we cared and loved Jersey and wanted Jersey to be such an important character in the show. There is no Bergerac without Jersey – the two are totally synonymous with each other. So it's really important for us that we were able to come and film in Jersey and obviously then to be welcomed by everyone was the cherry on the cake.

Without giving too much away, what’s the moment early in this season that really tells viewers: this is bigger, darker, and more dangerous than before?

Yes. One moment totally jumps out in episode 3, which I can't really talk about but I promise you it's worth waiting for. It emphasises and brings home to Jim that "I gotta catch the bad guy by myself because I can't wait for everyone else to catch up with me". And that really catches up with him in episode 3 and really rams home how serious and dangerous this case is going to get. It was a brilliant idea by our writers to really pull the rug out from under Jim. He loves solving the crime because he doesn't think anyone is as good as him so yeah, he gets his comeuppance with us in episode 3.

If series one was about grief, and this season leans into loneliness and longing, what did that shift unlock for you in how you play Jim?

In series one he was in the swamp – stuck in this awful pain, grief and loss. I described it previously as a circus tent and his wife is the main pole in the middle and that's gone. What's left behind is this family under the tarpaulin looking for the way out. And they can't find each other and they can't find the way out. Series 2, it's more hopeful, there are those kind of little offshoots of recovery and hope. But it turns out quite quickly that the person who might offer him a way out or certainly a new way of looking at things, is Nicola and she is dangerously close to the case that he's investigating. So if series one was about being stuck in the swamp, there is an element of series 2 resisting the obvious. These 2 people – wonderful in their own right – can help each other out but he has to resist that because professionally it's incredibly dangerous and that becomes even more dangerous as the series continues.

So if anyone hasn’t discovered Bergerac yet, what kind of shows do you think they’ll already love? And what about Bergerac will instantly hook them?

I used to watch a show when I was a kid called Dangerfield, it was real Sunday night TV. He had two older kids and was also a widower. He was always in the beautiful dales and valleys with hills in the background. That’s what I watched again in preparation for Bergerac.

I think telling a lot of people that I was playing Bergerac they're like, oh my God, he's this incredibly cool detective with the leather jacket and a car. What was actually pitched to me was a dad whose wife has just passed away, his relationship with his daughter has collapsed and he's trying to put the pieces back together as quickly as possible while he's also battling with alcoholism and a huge case at work. And that's suddenly when I got very excited about it… the emotional centre of it was what was really exciting to me, you're just looking at this man who's trying to kind of wrangle his life back into his control. And that's the great thing about the tagline for series 2, everything's under control, and you only say everything's under control when everything's not under control!

If you had to start or watch a play that's been adapted for TV, is there a character you'd want to play? Who would you love to see come to life?

I played a character in No Man's Land in the West End called Foster, and he's a manipulative, dangerous, very slippery character written by Harold Pinter. And that would be a cool character to investigate, because he turns up in the play halfway through, and you're like, where's he come from? Who is he? What's he doing in this house? He's 40 years younger than everyone else. Why is he there? And to know a little bit more about his backstory would be thrilling.

The trailer for Bergerac season 2:

When and where can I watch Bergerac season 2?

You will be able to stream all episodes on U from Thursday 16th April or watch live on U&Drama at 9pm!

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