Rags to riches family saga The Hardacres (6x60’) will return for a second outing as announced today by UK broadcaster 5. Following the smash-hit first series, which followed the Hardacre family as they navigated their rise from poverty to staggering wealth and the unexpected twists and turns that money brought, the new season charts the Hardacres as they settle into Hardacre Hall and turn their attention to reshaping the world around them… with all the ambition, friction, and fallout that entails.

The series is from Playground, the award-winning production company behind the internationally acclaimed hit series All Creatures Great and Small and Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light; in association with Screen Ireland and Red Berry Productions. Banijay Rights handles international sales for the series. 

The series was commissioned by Deputy Chief Content Officer and Head of Scripted, Paramount UK, Sebastian Cardwell, alongside Paul Testar, Commissioning Editor, 5. Executive Producers are Colin Callender CBE (All Creatures Great and Small, The Undeclared War) and David Stern (Howards End, The Last Tycoon) for Playground, Lesley McKimm (My Name is Emily, Sunlight) for Red Berry Productions, Cathy Payne and Simon Cox for Banijay Rights and Kate McColgan for Screen Ireland.

Kathryn Kennedy Fenton (The Miracle Club, Atomic Hope) is on board as Producer and Rachel Carey (The Hardacres, Obituary season 2), is returning as Lead Director. Dan Sefton (The Mallorca Files, Finders Keepers) is Lead Writer on series two with Sarah-Louise Hawkins (Whitstable Pearl, The Mallorca Files), Emma Reeves (The Hardacres, The Beaker Girls), Dan Muirden (Death in Paradise, Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators) , Cara Loftus (Spilt Milk) and Susie Conklin (A Gentleman in Moscow, A Discovery of Witches) also join to pen the series.