The Night Manager season 2: release schedule, trailer, cast, plot, and what else we know

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The Night Manager season 2: key information

- Episodes air weekly on Sundays
- It's available on BBC One in the UK and Prime Video internationally
- Season 2 picks up nearly a decade after the first
- Plenty of recurring names are back including Tom Hiddleston and Olivia Colman
- Plans for season 3 are "in the early stage", according to reports

Nine years after the original series, The Night Manager is back. I'm certainly not alone in having this down as my most anticipated show of 2026, and we've got plenty to look forward to. Our four and a half starThe Night Manager season 2 review should be enough to get you excited.

Here's everything you need to know.

The Night Manager season 2 release schedule

Camila Morrone dances between Tom Hiddleston and Diego Calva — (Image credit: BBC)

The Night Manager season 2 has already started in the UK, with the first two episodes dropping on January 1 and January 4. Episode 3 airs on January 11.

For US viewers, the first three episodes drop on January 11 before switching to a weekly Sunday schedule, lining up with the UK's. There will not be a BBC iPlayer boxset drop for this, so that's bad news for binge watchers.

From episode 3 onwards, here's what the release schedule looks like for everyone:

Episode 3: January 11
Episode 4: January 18
Episode 5: January 25
Episode 6: February 1

The Night Manager season 2 trailer

The Night Manager Season Two - Official Trailer | Prime Video - YouTube

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This 2-minute trailer might be short, but it teases a whole lot. There's explosions, familiar faces, new arrivals and even a flash of Hugh Laurie's Richard Roper from season 2.

It also teases that "the past is a deadly weapon", so it's a dramatic return like you might expect from a show that has been gone for so long. I don't know about you, but I'm ready to dive straight back in.

The Night Manager season 2 confirmed cast

Diego Calva, Tom Hiddleston and Camila Morrone — (Image credit: BBC)

There's a great cast attached to The Night Manager season 2, with Tom Hiddleston once again at the helm as Jonathan Pine, joined by Olivia Colman's Angela Burr, the Head of the Foreign Office's International Enforcement Agency.

You're about to have some new favorites too as some stellar names like Daisy Jones & The Six's Camila Morrone and Babylon's Diego Calva also star this season.

Here's the full season 2 cast:

Tom Hiddleston as Jonathan Pine
Olivia Coleman as Angela Burr
Alistair Petrie as Sandy Langbourne
Douglas Hodge as Rex Mayhew
Michael Nardone as Frisky
Noah Jupe as Daniel 'Danny' Roper
Diego Calva as Teddy Dos Santos
Camila Morrone as Roxana Bolanos
Indira Varma as Mayra Cavendish
Paul Chahidi as Basil
Hayley Squires as Sally
Kirby Howell-Baptiste as Dr Saunders

The Night Manager season 2 story synopsis

Tom Hiddleston in The Night Manager — (Image credit: BBC)

A lot of time has passed in the real world, and the same can be said for The Night Manager, where season 2 picks up eight years after the first.

When we pick up again, Roper is dead, and Pine has been keeping a low profile under a new alias Alex Goodwin. But just when he thinks he's buried the past, a "chance sighting of an old Roper mercenary prompts a call to action", according to the official synopsis.

This leads to a violent encounter with a new player, Colombian businessman Teddy Dos Santos (Diego Calva). On this new journey, Pine meets Roxana Bolaños (Camila Morrone), a businesswoman who reluctantly helps him infiltrate Teddy's Colombian arms operation.

Pine races to expose a conspiracy, but with betrayal at every turn, he must "decide whose trust he needs to earn and how far he’s willing to go before it's too late". So it's exciting stuff.

Will there be a season 3 of The Night Manager?

A group shot of the main cast in The Night Manager — (Image credit: BBC/AMC)

Yes, according to reports by Deadline, "the BBC and new co-pro partner Amazon have gone big on a supercharged two-season order of the thriller."

So we can expect to see at least one more season of The Night Manager, and hopefully we don't have such a long gap for this one! We'll have to wait for further reports to find out when it might arrive.

In an interview with Variety, director Georgi Banks-Davies said: "There was a third season that was always in the offing. David [Farr] is writing it now — he’s at the coalface and in the early stage. But yeah, when the second season came the plan was to go to three."

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