(BritBox)

Ludwig has added a big name as a guest star for season two. Stephen Merchant will appear in the series, which returns this fall to BritBox.

David Mitchell, Anna Maxwell Martin, Mark Bonnar, and Sian Clifford star in the series, which follows John ‘Ludwig’ Taylor as he works alongside the Cambridge Police Authority. It was revealed that Merchant will play “Danny Sloane, a cocky snooker champion who is at odds with John in the season’s fourth episode.”

BritBox shared the following about season two:

“Coming to BritBox this fall, the second season of the acclaimed detective series Ludwig stars David Mitchell and Anna Maxwell Martin. Season two also features new series regulars Mark Bonnar (Dept. Q, Guilt) as newspaper editor Gareth Fisher, Sian Clifford (Fleabag, The Ballad of Wallis Island) as local MP Joanne Kemper, Ben Ashenden (Deep Cover, Black Mirror) as DC Ethan Cole, and Rumi Sutton (After the Flood, Mutiny) as DC Caitlin Sullivan.

Picking up from the end of season one, master puzzle-setter John ‘Ludwig’ Taylor (David Mitchell) is now a Crime Scene Consultant, working alongside DCI Russell Carter (Dipo Ola), on ‘impossible’ crimes for the Cambridge Police Authority. No longer having to masquerade as his brother, he’s openly more ‘Ludwig’ than ever – brilliant at solving puzzles but hopeless at everything else. But John’s identical twin brother, James, is still missing, and now that he’s an official employee of the station, John is forbidden from using any police resources to look for his brother or uncover exactly what he was investigating. Of course, John won’t stop and neither will Lucy (Anna Maxwell Martin), John’s sister-in-law and wife of his missing brother James. A puzzle needs solving and a husband and father needs bringing home. One masquerade may have ended, but a new one has just begun.”

The premiere date for season two will be announced later.

What do you think? Do you enjoy this BritBox series? Do you plan to watch season two?