Returning: The Tunnel

Earlier this year Sky Atlantic pulled the premiere of The Tunnel season two following Belgian terror attacks.

That left ABC without a series for a week, but it finally rolls out tomorrow night following The Code.

The Tunnel: Sabotage, which now depicts an attack on a British airliner which crashes into the English channel, is of course originally based on Scandi-series The Bridge but now evolves into its own storyline.

The English and French sleuthing duo, DCI Karl Roebuck (Stephen Dillane) and French Commander Elise Wasserman (Clémence Poésy) are back in the second series of The Tunnel.

Elise and Karl have been leading separate lives. But two seemingly isolated events reunite them – a French couple are abducted from the Channel tunnel, leaving behind a traumatised small child and days later a plane crashes into the Channel, killing everyone on board. Is it a terrible coincidence or are the two tragedies connected? Karl and Elise are faced with bigger questions; forging connections from the clues thrown up by a vast field of debris.

Following a shocking trail of devastation, Karl, Elise and the cross border team, become embroiled in a terrifying, deadly game of brinkmanship as the victims mount up. The Tunnel moves between the coasts of Kent and Northern France via the Eurotunnel, against a backdrop of a continent in crisis.
Joining the cast for series two include; Emilia Fox (Silent Witness), Clarke Peters (The Wire), Paul Schneider (Parks and Recreation) and William Ash (Shameless).

9.30pm Thursday 1 September on ABC.