{"id":23241,"date":"2025-08-19T10:48:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T14:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/netflix-renews-crime-procedural-dept-q\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T10:51:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T14:51:00","slug":"netflix-renews-crime-procedural-dept-q","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/netflix-renews-crime-procedural-dept-q\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Renews Crime Procedural Dept. Q"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix has commissioned a second season of <em>Dept. Q<\/em>, based on Jussi Adler-Olsen\u2019s novels and starring Matthew Goode (<em>A Discovery of Witches<\/em>) in the lead role.<\/p>\n<p>Goode stars as DCI Carl Morck, who leads a team of detective misfits, played by Alexej Manvelov, Leah Byrne and James Sives. The series is written and directed by Scott Frank (<em>The Queen\u2019s Gambit<\/em>, <em>Godless<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Executive producers of the series include Left Bank Pictures\u2019 Rob Bullock and Charlotte Moore, as well as Frank. Mona Qureshi and Manda Levin oversee as execs for Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>Season two will again be filmed in Edinburgh, Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are raring to return to Carl Morck and his band of glorious misfits at Dept. Q,\u201d Qureshi and Levin said. \u201cScott Frank brought us best-in-class storytelling and thrilled Netflix audiences worldwide. We can\u2019t wait to see what Morck and the gang uncover in season 2. Edinburgh, we\u2019re back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bullock commented, \u201cSo, we are going downstairs to Dept. Q for a second season. We at Left Bank Pictures nervously await what Scott has in store for his alter-ego Carl Morck and the other enabling members of team do-lally. We salute Netflix\u2019s courage to let them loose once again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m grateful to the folks at Netflix, as well as our shining cast and crew, for once more risking their careers to enable my folly,\u201d Frank said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d like to thank Netflix for giving us the opportunity to further investigate Department Q\u2019s storylines,\u201d Goode added. \u201cWe have a wonderful cast and crew, headed by our resident genius Scott Frank. I cannot wait to read what comes from his magic quill!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix has commissioned a second season of Dept. Q, based on Jussi Adler-Olsen\u2019s novels and starring Matthew Goode (A Discovery of Witches) in the lead role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":23242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[11239,8517,8518,88,11240],"class_list":["post-23241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-dept-q","tag-jussi-adler-olsen","tag-matthew-goode","tag-netflix","tag-scott-frank","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Netflix Renews Crime Procedural Dept. Q - TVDRAMA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/netflix-renews-crime-procedural-dept-q\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Netflix Renews Crime Procedural Dept. Q - TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Netflix has commissioned a second season of Dept. Q, based on Jussi Adler-Olsen\u2019s novels and starring Matthew Goode (A Discovery of Witches) in the lead role.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/netflix-renews-crime-procedural-dept-q\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-19T14:48:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-19T14:51:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/08\/2-Netflix-DeptQ-0825.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"394\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/netflix-renews-crime-procedural-dept-q\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/netflix-renews-crime-procedural-dept-q\/\",\"name\":\"Netflix Renews Crime Procedural Dept. Q - TVDRAMA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-19T14:48:13+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-19T14:51:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/netflix-renews-crime-procedural-dept-q\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/netflix-renews-crime-procedural-dept-q\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/netflix-renews-crime-procedural-dept-q\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Netflix Renews Crime Procedural Dept. Q\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\",\"name\":\"TVDRAMA\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\",\"name\":\"Jamie Stalcup\",\"description\":\"Jamie Stalcup is the executive editor of World Screen. She can be reached at jstalcup@worldscreen.com.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/author\/jamiestalcup\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Netflix Renews Crime Procedural Dept. Q - TVDRAMA","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/netflix-renews-crime-procedural-dept-q\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Netflix Renews Crime Procedural Dept. Q - TVDRAMA","og_description":"Netflix has commissioned a second season of Dept. Q, based on Jussi Adler-Olsen\u2019s novels and starring Matthew Goode (A Discovery of Witches) in the lead role.","og_url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/netflix-renews-crime-procedural-dept-q\/","og_site_name":"TVDRAMA","article_published_time":"2025-08-19T14:48:13+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-08-19T14:51:00+00:00","og_image":[{"width":640,"height":394,"url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/08\/2-Netflix-DeptQ-0825.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Jamie Stalcup","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Jamie Stalcup","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/netflix-renews-crime-procedural-dept-q\/","url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/netflix-renews-crime-procedural-dept-q\/","name":"Netflix Renews Crime Procedural Dept. Q - TVDRAMA","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website"},"datePublished":"2025-08-19T14:48:13+00:00","dateModified":"2025-08-19T14:51:00+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/netflix-renews-crime-procedural-dept-q\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/netflix-renews-crime-procedural-dept-q\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/netflix-renews-crime-procedural-dept-q\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Netflix Renews Crime Procedural Dept. Q"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website","url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/","name":"TVDRAMA","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb","name":"Jamie Stalcup","description":"Jamie Stalcup is the executive editor of World Screen. She can be reached at jstalcup@worldscreen.com.","url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/author\/jamiestalcup\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1412"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}