Killing Eve season 2 to premiere on AMC on 7 April
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Joseph O'Halloran
| 14 February 2019

Villanelle is back: the hugely-awaited premiere of the second season of award-winning BBC America drama Killing Eve starring will simulcast on AMC Networks on 7 April.

Produced by Sid Gentle Films for BBC America, the drama, starring Golden Globe, Critics’ Choice Award and SAG Award-winner Sandra Oh and breakout star Jodie Comer, Killing Eve revolves around Eve (Oh), an MI6 operative, and psychopath assassin Villanelle (Comer) in the story of two women bound by a mutual obsession and one brutal act.

In the second season, the action picks up just 36 seconds after the end of the final episode of season one. Villanelle has disappeared and Eve is left reeling, having no idea if the woman she stabbed is alive or dead. With both of them in deep trouble, Eve has to find Villanelle before someone else does...but unfortunately, she’s not the only person looking for her.

The series is based on the Codename Villanelle novellas by Luke Jennings and is executive produced by Sally Woodward Gentle, Lee Morris, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Gina Mingacci and lead writer Emerald Fennell. Oh and Francesca Gardiner are co-executive producers. Elinor Day serves as series producer. Damon Thomas returns to direct and is also executive producer, with Lisa Brühlmann and Francesca Gregorini also directing. Killing Eve is distributed by Endeavor Content.

In the US, the series finished its first season with what AMC said was an unbroken record of weekly ratings growth in the key adults 25-54 and 1849 demos. It noted that this was something no other show on television has accomplished in the history of Nielsen live+3 ratings. The finale delivered series highs with 1.25 million viewers in live+3, up 86% from the premiere, with 545,000 adults 25-54 and 378,000 adults 18-49, up 127% and 100% from the premiere, respectively. The season finale in May was also the leading most social drama of the day.

“When we launched Killing Eve on BBC America last year we had high hopes, but no idea it would become this obsession,” commented Sarah Barnett, president, entertainment networks for AMC Networks. “We believe we’ve just hit the tip of the iceberg in terms of potential viewers and we want to expose this brilliant series to the largest audience we can. That’s what’s behind this move... to have a big, premium network like AMC introduce this fantastic storytelling to an even broader array of viewers and fans.”