The series looks at World War II through the eyes of ordinary people from all sides of the conflict. The new seven-episode season follows the first year of the war, starting with the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and ending with the Battle of Britain.
The cast includes Lesley Manville (The Crown), Jonah Hauer-King (Little Women (2017)), Ahad Raza Mir (Resident Evil (2022)), Mark Bonnar (Guilt), and Gregg Sulkin (Marvel's Runaways).
In 2019, PBS joined the BBC for a second season of the drama starring Helen Hunt as a war correspondent. Season two has already aired in the UK, where viewers have noticed the absence of Hunt, Sean Bean, Arthur Darvill and Brian J. Smith - due to a combination of scheduling issues and further storylines for their characters. Work on the second season coincided with the pandemic.
In some cases, their characters and their absence are mentioned or explained.
Bowker shared the following for season two on PBS's website: "In season two, Kasia and Lois will meet and the repercussions of that will, I think, be interesting and fascinating to everyone. The second season historically begins with the Blitz in the northwest of England. And North Africa will be an important battleground. We will learn more about Webster's family history. Nancy will eventually have to leave Berlin at the beginning of the series, because she has crossed a line, and we will also learn more about Nancy. And she will continue. She will definitely be in the Soviet Union for part of it. So yeah, that's the form it takes. And Lois, of course, trapped in a rather Brontë-esque, loveless marriage to Vernon ."
World on Fire was developed by Mammoth's Creative Director Rebecca Keane and produced by Bowker, Damien Timmer and Helen Ziegler for Mammoth Screen, Lucy Richer for the BBC and Rebecca Eaton for Masterpiece. The series producer is Chris Clough. Adam Smith (Doctor Who) directs episodes one and two, Thomas Napper (Baptiste) episodes three, Chanya Button (The Spanish Princess) episodes five and six and Andy Wilson (Unforgotten) episodes four and seven.
The second season of World on Fire will air on PBS on Sunday, October 15.
Watch the trailer for season two of World on Fire below.
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