![]() ![]() New blood: Julie Hesmondhalgh and Kevin Doyle join the Happy Valley cast for the second series. I can churn out tons in that time, whereas in the one o’clock to four o’clock slot in the afternoon it’s like … nothing,” she says. Despite a nervous start, and worried she couldn’t live up to the success of Happy Valley’s debut, she soon rattled out enough material for six episodes, often rising crazily early – as in, 2am or 3am – giving her a good four hours before her teenage sons got up. Many of the actors have appeared in her other work - Doyle, for example, was in both At Home With The Braithwaites, a comedy about a woman who tries to keep her lottery win secret, and ITV cop show Scott & Bailey. Wainwright says she has assembled her dream team for Happy Valley 2. The reliably excellent Julie Hesmondhalgh (Hayley Cropper in Coronation Street) plays his wife. A new key character is introduced, a distracted detective played by Kevin Doyle (valet Molesley in Downton Abbey), whose affair compromises everything he holds dear. ![]() It begins with Catherine telling her sister about a farcical police operation involving sheep poisoning, which inevitably leads to a much darker discovery. The first episode of the new series suggests she has got her way. Her intention was always to alternate light with shade, she said. In an interview with Mark Lawson after winning the Guardian accolade, Wainwright said she was going to try to make the follow-up funnier. The not-very happy valley of the title is the real-life Calder Valley, with the action hopping between Hebden Bridge, Sowerby Bridge and the other towns strung along the river Calder, which flooded so catastrophically this boxing day. The grandson is the product of a rape committed by Tommy Lee Royce (James Norton), the villain of series one, who starts the second in prison after being convicted of three murders. ![]() Happy Valley, voted the best TV show of 2014 by the Guardian, tells the story of troubled police officer, Catherine Cawood, who is bringing up her grandson alone after her daughter killed herself. Happy Valley writer and director Sally Wainwright. We’ve heard of a lot of police officers watching it and saying it’s one of the few programmes they think gets it right.” ![]() Later, eating lunch in her trailer, Wainwright says it might not seem important, “but if you persistently drip those subtleties in, it gives it a real authenticity. Today, she asks her old school friend if she should just show the extras how fast real PCs would go down stairs when rushing off on a job. Farrand went to infant school with Wainwright in nearby Sowerby Bridge and is on set whenever Happy Valley’s star, Sarah Lancashire, is doing “anything physical”, telling her to get really stuck in when slapping on handcuffs making sure wardrobe have got the high-viz jackets just grubby enough. She is adamant that the second series of her Bafta-winning crime drama Happy Valley will be even more authentic than the first - and now that she is not only writing but also directing most of the run, she can do as many takes as she likes.Īt her side is Lisa Farrand, not long retired from Huddersfield police after hurting her wrist during a particularly sketchy arrest. They get faster each time, every new descent ordered by Sally Wainwright, who is determined they make them move just like proper coppers. In a dingy, disused factory in the West Yorkshire town of Elland, a troupe of actors dressed as police officers run repeatedly down a set of stairs. ![]()
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