After a long wait, Jonathan Pine is returning for a new mission. The Night Manager Season 2 will premiere in early 2026, bringing back Tom Hiddleston and Olivia Colman for another sophisticated spy thriller. This new chapter picks up years after the first season’s explosive ending, taking Pine from a quiet London life into a dangerous arms conspiracy in Colombia.
The show’s return is a major television event. The first season, based on John le Carrรฉ’s novel, was a critical and popular hit, winning Golden Globes and drawing millions of viewers. With no direct sequel book to follow, the new season is an original story that expands on le Carrรฉ’s characters. For fans who have been asking about a follow-up for nearly a decade, the wait is finally over.
New Mission in Colombia
The new season finds Jonathan Pine living under the name Alex Goodwin. He is no longer a hotel manager but runs a low-level MI6 surveillance unit in London called “The Night Owls”. His job is to watch and listen, not to act, and this quiet life offers him a kind of peace after the chaos of his past.
This peace shatters when Pine spots a familiar faceโa former mercenary who worked for the arms dealer Richard Roper. This sighting pulls him back into action and leads to a violent meeting with a new threat: Teddy Dos Santos, a powerful Colombian businessman played by Diego Calva. To infiltrate Dos Santos’s world, Pine adopts a new, reckless identity as a financier named Matthew Ellis and travels to Colombia.
There, he meets Roxana Bolaรฑos, a sharp businesswoman portrayed by Camila Morrone. Roxana becomes his reluctant guide into Teddy’s operation, which involves arming and training a guerrilla army. As Pine digs deeper, he discovers the plot is more complex, with another figure, Gilberto Hanson, pulling strings from the shadows. The story explores themes of trust, betrayal, and the personal cost of a life built on lies.
Tom Hiddleston shared his thoughts on returning to the role: “Ten years have passed and they havenโt been easy โ in the world, in this country, for all of us. Imagine how much more complex theyโve been for those working in the security and intelligence services. To return to the character of Pine, while carrying my own experience of the last decade, was a thrilling prospect.”
Who is Returning and Who is New?
The cast combines beloved original stars with exciting new additions.
Returning main cast members include:
- Tom Hiddleston as Jonathan Pine.
- Olivia Colman as intelligence officer Angela Burr.
- Noah Jupe as Danny Roper, the son of Richard Roper.
- Alistair Petrie as Sandy Langbourne.
- Douglas Hodge as Rex Mayhew.
- Michael Nardone as Frisky.
New cast members joining the story are:
- Diego Calva as the charismatic and dangerous arms dealer, Teddy Dos Santos.
- Camila Morrone as Roxana Bolaรฑos, a mysterious businesswoman with her own agenda.
- Indira Varma plays a character named Mayra.
- Paul Chahidi is cast as Basil.
- Hayley Squires plays Sally, a member of Pine’s “Night Owls” surveillance team.
While Hugh Laurie‘s character, Richard Roper, is declared dead in the new season’s storyline, Laurie himself is involved behind the scenes as an executive producer.
Global Release Schedule and How to Watch
Audiences around the world can watch the new season starting in January 2026, but the release date depends on your location.
- In the United Kingdom, the season will be available first. All episodes will launch on BBC iPlayer on Thursday, January 1, 2026. The series will also air on BBC One.
- For the rest of the world, the series will stream exclusively on Prime Video starting Sunday, January 11, 2026.
- On Prime Video, the season will be released in weekly episodes. The first three episodes will be available on January 11, with one new episode dropping each following Sunday. The sixth and final episode is scheduled for February 1, 2026.
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Behind the Scenes: New Leadership and Global Scale
The creative team has some new key members. The entire season is directed by Georgi Banks-Davies, a BAFTA-winning director. Tom Hiddleston praised her focus on emotional truth, saying she was “brave enough to pull the layers away so that you see the intensity of feeling that these characters are driven by”.
The series is again led by writer and executive producer David Farr, who created this original sequel story. He described the challenge of continuing without a source novel, aiming to write something with the “sophistication and complexity that le Carrรฉ would approve of”.
The production maintains the global, high-quality feel of the first season. Filming took place across multiple countries, including the United Kingdom, Spain, Colombia, and France. This scale brings the story’s locationsโfrom London to Medellรญnโto life.
The first season of The Night Manager is available to stream on Prime Video for those who want to revisit the story before the new season begins.
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