Dept. Q Renewed For Season 2 At Netflix

Dept. Q isn't shutting down any time soon: Netflix has renewed the crime procedural for Season 2, TVLine has learned.

The Season 2 pickup comes nearly three months after the release of its acclaimed freshman run. Matthew Goode will return as DCI Carl Morck, alongside Alexej Manvelov as Akram, Leah Byrne as Rose and Jamie Sives as Hardy. 

"I'm grateful to the folks at Netflix, as well as our shining cast and crew, for once more risking their careers to enable my folly," series creator Scott Frank said in a statement Monday. Added Goode: "I'd like to thank Netflix for giving us the opportunity to further investigate Department Q's storylines. We have a wonderful cast and crew, headed by our resident genius Scott Frank. I cannot wait to read what comes from his magic quill!"

For the uninitiated: In Dept. Q, "DCI Carl Morck heads up the maverick Dept. Q from the basement of an Edinburgh police station," per the official logline. "Charged with cases previously deemed unsolvable, this darkly humorous, propulsive show delivers all the pleasures of a procedural, taking us into the complex mysteries not just of the cases but of the detectives themselves."

In its first week of eligibility, Dept. Q landed at No. 3 on Nielsen's U.S. ranking of streaming originals Nielsen noted that the series "resonated with the over 50 crowd," which accounted for 76% of its 749 million minutes viewed during the week of May 26. The following week, Dept. Q rose to second place (with 1.1 billion minutes viewed across its nine episodes).

Dept. Q spent another two weeks on the Nielsen streaming ranking (at No. 5 and then No. 6), before falling off.

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