‘Patience’ Season 2 Trailer: Meet Bea Metcalf’s Replacement, Frankie Monroe (VIDEO)

The wait is over: Patience Season 2 finally has a premiere date on PBS. TV Insider is exclusively debuting the first look at the new season, including the trailer and the date it will return for U.S. audiences.

An adaptation of the popular French series Astrid, Patience follows Patience Evans (Ella Maisy Purvis), an autistic woman who works in the Criminal Records Office in the city of York. In Patience Season 2, Patience is back tackling puzzling crimes when new detective Frankie Monroe (Jessica Hynes, Miss Austen) bursts onto the scene. Their differences spark tension, but they must learn to work as a team as they investigate cases of murder and mystery across the city. Meanwhile, Patience searches for her mother and navigates the ups and downs of new love.

See the action unfold in the Patience Season 2 trailer above. The first seconds reveal that Hynes’ Frankie Monroe is D.I. Bea Metcalf’s (Laura Fraser) replacement, and the change doesn’t bode well for Patience at first. For another look at the new and returning characters, see the gallery below.

Patience Season 2 consists of eight episodes. All eight episodes will be available to stream on Sunday, May 31, with PBS Passport and PBS Masterpiece on Prime Video. The series will broadcast Sundays, June 14 through August 2 at 8/7c on PBS (check local listings). Patience presents an authentic neurodivergent perspective, bringing an expanded lens to the crime drama genre.

“Audiences connected with Patience in its first season, and we’re excited to bring the mystery back for another chapter,” said Maria Bruno Ruiz, VP, Program Content Strategy and Scheduling at PBS. “With new cases, new characters, and deeper emotional stakes, Season 2 builds on what viewers loved while expanding the world of the show.”

The ensemble cast also features Nathan Welsh, Mark Benton, Adrian Rawlins, Tom Lewis, Ali Ariaie, Liza Sadovy, and others. The series has already been renewed for Season 3.

Patience was adapted by lead writers Amy Shindler and Beth Chalmers, alongside Jacqui Honess-Martin and Rachel Smith, and directed by Maarten Moerkerke alongside Raf Reyntjens. The series is an Eagle Eye Drama title produced in association with Channel 4 for PBS, which is currently averaging 4.2 million viewers per episode in the U.K. and their top drama of the last four years. The series is also produced in association with Happy Duck Films and Gallop Tax Shelter with the support of Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government. Patience is produced by Jacqueline Clyne and executive produced by Walter Iuzzolino, Jo McGrath, and Alison Kee. Beta Film handles international distribution for Patience while PBS Distribution handles North American distribution.

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