Returning: Indian Summers

While Season One of Indian Summers has just premiered on ABC, Season Two begins on BBC First next month.

Rachel Griffiths joins alongside Art Malik, James Fleet and Blake Ritson.

This will be the final season for the drama. It comprises one 90 minute episode plus 9 x one hour editions.

It’s 1935 and Simla prepares once again for the annual arrival of the Indian Civil Service for the summer season. Although it’s seemingly business as usual for the British administration, a lot has changed for our characters in the three years since we last spent the summer with them in the foothills of the Himalayas.

For Ralph Whelan, this year is the most pivotal of his career. The Viceroy, Lord Willingdon, is in his final few months in the role and Ralph has long been tipped for the top job. Away from work, Ralph’s personal life is causing him even more concern.

Also back in Simla for the summer are the rest of the Dalal family but they are no longer in the Bazaar, having now settled at Ivy Cottage and enjoying the newfound status that their son’s ascending career affords them.

And throughout all this, life in Simla continues, as fun and debauched as ever.

Starring: Julie Walters (Harry Potter), Olivia Grant (Stardust), Ash Nair (Cuak), Henry Lloyd-Hughes (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), Nikesh Patel (London Has Fallen), Jemima West (The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones), Fiona Glascott (Brooklyn), Aysha Kala (Shameless), Lillete Dubey (The Lunchbox), Rachel Griffiths (House Husbands), Art Malik (Homeland), James Fleet (Coronation Street), Blake Ritson (Da Vinci’s Demons).

Saturdays at 8.30pm from June 4 on BBC First.