EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK AT JAMIE DORNAN AND DANIELLE MACDONALD IN THE BRAND NEW SEASON OF THE STAN ORIGINAL SERIES THE TOURIST

August 16, 2023 – Stan, Australia’s unrivalled home of original productions, together with the BBC, today released first look images of the highly anticipated second season of The Tourist, which will see the return of BAFTA and Golden Globe award nominated Jamie Dornan (Belfast, The Fall) and Danielle Macdonald (Unbelievable, Dumplin’). With the first season being one of the biggest global shows of 2022, the six-part thriller, created and written by Jack and Harry Williams, is produced by the award-winning Two Brothers Pictures (Baptiste, The Missing, Fleabag) for BBC, in association with Stan, ZDF and All3Media International.

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The images feature Jamie Dornan who resumes his role as Elliot Stanley, a man looking to rediscover his true identity following his memory loss, alongside Danielle Macdonald, as former police officer Helen Chambers, following their adventure in the Australian Outback.

Set against the striking backdrop of Ireland, in season two the pair are confronted by friends and foes as they attempt to uncover the secrets of Elliot’s past. As Elliot and Helen are dragged into a longstanding family feud, the brand new season introduces a raft of new characters including Detective Ruairi Slater (Conor MacNeill, Industry, The Fall), Niamh Cassidy (Olwen Fouéré, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Northman) and the McDonnell family – Donal (Diarmaid Murtagh, Vikings, Outlander), Orla (Nessa Matthews, Fair City), Fergal (Mark McKenna, Sing Street, One of Us is Lying), and Frank (Francis Magee, Kin, Then You Run).

Full of shocking plot twists and the same off-beat comedy that made season one a global success, The Tourist is set to return next year with even more intriguing characters and intense action.

The brand new season of the Stan Original Series The Tourist is a Two Brothers Pictures (an All3Media company) production for the BBC, in association with Stan, ZDF and All3Media International, and created and written by Harry Williams and Jack Williams (The Missing, Baptiste, Fleabag). Fergus O’Brien (Happy Valley, Gentleman Jack) directs the opening block with Johann Perry (Happy Valley, Gentleman Jack) as DOP, while Lisa Mulcahy (Blood, Years and Years) and Kate Dolan (Kin, You Are Not My Mother) direct block two and three respectively. Alex Mercer (Inside Man, Crossfire) is producer, with Louise Kiely (The Banshees of Inisherin, Normal People) as casting director. Executive producers are Harry and Jack Williams, Sarah Hammond and Daniel Walker for Two Brothers Pictures, with Nawfal Faizullah for the BBC, and Jamie Dornan. Stan Executive Producers are Cailah Scobie and Amanda Duthie. International sales will be handled by All3Media international.

The brand new season of the Stan Original Series The Tourist premieres in 2024. Every episode of season one is now streaming, only on Stan.

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About Two Brothers Pictures:

Two Brothers Pictures was set up by BAFTA and Golden Globe nominated writers and producers ​ Harry and Jack Williams in 2014. Producing quality scripted television in the UK and internationally, Two Brothers Pictures is one of the most exciting and successful production companies in the UK. The London based independent, which joined the All3Media family in February 2017, has produced some of TVs best loved shows including Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Emmy & Golden Globe winning, modern cult classic, Fleabag (for BBC Three and Amazon), much talked about drama Liar (ITV), the hugely successful Baptiste (BBC One) and their most recent release The Tourist starring Jamie Dornan and Danielle Macdonald (BBC, Stan andHBO Max), which became the most watched new show on BBC iPlayer in 2022.

About All3Media International:

All3Media International distributes popular, award-winning TV programmes to over 1,000 broadcasters and media platforms around the world. The company has been celebrated for producing, marketing and distributing quality, ground-breaking and pioneering shows to a global audience – consistently topping the Broadcast and Televisual annual Indies Surveys and we have been awarded the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in recognition of our growth – twice. Our catalogue contains over 20,000 hours of content across all genres. As well as Britain’s top-selling drama series Midsomer Murders, our quality scripted content includes Fleabag, All Creatures Great and Small, It’s a Sin, Trigger Point, The Tourist, Mystery Road, and Van Der Valk as well as the The English, starring Emily Blunt. Our Non-Scripted content slate includes premium factual documentaries such as Who Is Ghislaine Maxwell? and Fever Pitch: Rise of the Premiere League as well as various factual entertainment titles including Escape to the Chateu, Great British Menu and Four in a Bed, and also representing some of television’s most beloved brands from Monty Don, Alan Titchmarsh, Gordon Ramsay, Mary Beard and Grayson Perry. Our celebrated formats include The Traitors, Gogglebox, Undercover Boss, This is your Life, Lingo, The Dog House and Race Across the World and we also represent an extensive list of successful scripted formats including Liar, Blood, Cheat and Queer as Folk. ​ 

About ZDF:

ZDF (Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen) is Germany’s national public television broadcaster. It is run as an independent non-profit corporation under the authority of the Länder, the sixteen states that constitute the Federal Republic of Germany. The nationwide channel ZDF has been broadcasting since 1st April 1963 and remains one of the country’s leading sources of information. Today, ZDF also operates the two thematic channels ZDFneo and ZDFinfo. In partnership with other public broadcasters, ZDF jointly operates the internet-only offer funk, the German channels PHOENIX and KiKA, and the European channels 3sat and ARTE. https://www.zdf.de/zdfunternehmen/factsandfigures-100.html