After the Flood series 2: who is in the cast, start time, and how to watch it?

Meet the cast of After the Flood series 2 👀📺

  • After the Flood will continue in just a matter of hours.
  • The ITV thriller has returned for a second series.
  • But who is in the cast this time around.

Storm Chandra might have passed by After the Flood is set to continue on ITV this weekend. The hit crime drama has returned for its highly anticipated second series.

Back after two years, the ITV thriller once again stars Sophie Rundle as Jo Marshall. Newly promoted to DC, she is kept guessing by a double murder in Waterside.

But who else can you expect to see in the cast? Here’s all you need to know:

What time is After the Flood on TV today?

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Nicholas Gleaves as SGT Phil Mackie in After the Flood | Quay Street/ ITV

The show made its highly anticipated return weekend, two years after it initially premiered back in January 2024. ITV is set to serve up another pair of episodes over the next two days.

After the Flood is set to wrap up its second series with episodes five and six. It will be on tonight (February 1) and tomorrow (February 2).

The show is set to start at 9pm on both days on ITV1. For those who can’t wait, the full boxset is available to watch on ITVX.

Who is in the cast of After the Flood series 2?

Sophie Rundle has returned to lead the cast of the crime drama once again. There are plenty of other familiar faces back for the new episodes - and a few fresh additions as well.

Joining the cast for series two are Alun Armstrong (Breeders, Sherwood) playing Alan Benson, Jill Halfpenny (The Red King, The Long Shadow) as DS Sam Bradley, Ian Puleston-Davies (Pennyworth, Tin Star) as Tony Rower and Matthew McNulty (The Jetty, The Rising) as Xav Palmer.

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Sophie Rundle as Joanna Marshall in After the Flood series 2 | Quay Street/ ITV

Also joining the cast is Oliver Nelson (The Gathering, Home Fires) as Declan Rower, Roger Morlidge (The Bank of Dave, Chemistry of Death) as Geoff Dixon, Lola Brown (a newcomer) as Izza and Tony Marshall (Sister Boniface Mysteries, Casualty) as Fraser Tempest.

The full cast for After the Flood series 2 includes:

  • Sophie Rundle - Jo Marshall
  • Nicholas Gleaves - Sergeant Phil Mackie
  • Lorraine Ashbourne - Molly Marshall
  • Philip Glenister - Jack Radcliffe
  • Matt Stokoe - Pat Holman (Jo’s Husband)
  • Alun Armstrong - Alan Benson
  • Jill Halfpenny - DS Sam Bradley
  • Ian Puleston-Davies - Tony Rower
  • Matthew McNulty - Xav Palmer
  • Oliver Nelson - Declan Rower
  • Roger Morlidge - Geoff Dixon
  • Lola Brown - Izza
  • Tony Marshall - Fraser Tempest

What to expect from After the Flood series 2?

The second series finds newly promoted detective Jo Marshall (Sophie Rundle) on the trail of a baffling new murder investigation - a year after the devastating flood, depicted in season one.

As tensions simmer in Waterside amid the rising threat of moorland fires and the subsequent risk of further flooding, a body is discovered in bizarre circumstances.

Jo's race to stop the killer brings her into direct conflict with dark and influential forces within the town, ultimately drawing her into an investigation that becomes deeply personal.

One that will require her to operate in secret if she is to have any hope of rooting out the corruption that has blighted the town's police force - and her own family - for decades.

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