This City is Ours to return for a second series

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BBC/Left Bank Pictures Key formed members shown against sunlit backdrop of Liverpool's waterfront including the Liver Building. They are Julie Graham who plays Elaine Phelan, Jack McMullen who plays Jamie Phelan, Sean Bean who plays Ronnie Phelan, James Nelson-Joyce who plays Michael Kavanagh, and Hannah Onslow who plays Diana Williams.

The BBC play This City is Ours volition instrumentality for a 2nd bid aft attracting much than six cardinal viewers, the broadcaster has confirmed.

Filmed successful Liverpool, the eight-episode thriller astir the lives and loves of the Phelan household - operating against the backdrop of cause trafficking - has go the corporation's most-watched caller play this year.

Starring Sean Bean and Julie Graham, it featured Liverpudlian actors James Nelson-Joyce – who has been touted arsenic a imaginable James Bond replacement - and Jack McMullen.

Creator Stephen Butchard said helium had been "blown distant by the incredibly affirmative response", adding: "I can't convey the assemblage capable for their clip and affectional investment."

The series, which chronicles the conflict for power implicit a cocaine-trafficking gang, filmed immoderate scenes successful Spain and volition beryllium sold to overseas broadcasters.

The saga besides won viewers' hearts with lighter moments that included Sean Bean, arsenic pack person Ronnie Phelan, starring a complaint of play buggies to the taxable from the movie Apocalypse Now.

A country featuring the cast line-dancing to the 1950s opus The House of Bamboo has led to various imitations that person gone viral online.

BBC/Left Bank Pictures The formed execute a enactment creation connected a dimly-lit dancefloor astatine a party. They are surrounded by radical sitting and lasting who are watching them.

Dubbed the "Scouse Sopranos" – successful notation to the palmy US transgression play – the amusement was partially funded by the Liverpool Film Office, with the regional authority saying the accumulation boosted the section system by £9m.

Details person not yet been released astir the 2nd bid formed and filming commencement date.

Director of BBC Drama Lindsay Salt credited the accumulation squad who "brought it to the surface truthful classily".

"I'm delighted that we present get to physique connected this fantastic archetypal tally and amusement that things are lone conscionable getting started for this precise peculiar series," she said.

BBC/Left Bank Pictures Actress Julie Graham, who plays Elaine Phelan, holds a babe lad playing the portion of small Alfie Phelan her arms successful a dimly-lit room. The babe is wearing white. Ms Graham is wearing achromatic and has a superior oregon concentrating look connected her face.

Although the bid climax airs connected BBC One aboriginal connected Sunday, the afloat play has been available connected BBC iPlayer wherever astir 3 cardinal radical person already watched the finale.

Executive shaper Sian McWilliams, from Left Bank Pictures, said: "After the tumultuous events of the play 1 finale, the pack rivalries and betrayals person escalated to caller levels, caller ones person conscionable begun, and determination is simply a batch of unfinished business."

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