Jon-Hamm-and-Daniel-Radcliffe-in-A-Young-Doctor's-NotebookJon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe partnered up last year for A Young Doctor’s Notebook, which became the most successful programme in Sky Arts history.

It’s understandable, then, that the channel would want to bring the duo back for a second season, and now news arrives that Hamm and Radcliffe have officially signed on for a second series.

The original four-part mini-series was based on a collection of short stories by Mikhail Bulgakov, airing in December last year as part of Sky Arts’ Playhouse Presents series.

There’s no word yet on the exact length of the second series, but it wouldn’t be amiss to suspect that it will be at least another four episodes long, given the success of the first season.

The comedy-drama’s second series will return to the small village of Muryevo in 1918 to find the Young Doctor battling against an all-consuming morphine addiction. Under the critical gaze of his “clean” older self, the Young Doctor struggles to cope with life in the hospital, the Civil War, and the arrival of a beautiful young aristocrat (Margaret Clunie).

As someone who lacks Sky Arts and has only Freeview, I missed the first season when it aired on TV. Needless to say, I’ll have to catch up on the first series before the second arrives, having heard very good things about it late last year.

Shooting is set to start this summer, with the series expected to return before the year’s end. And readers in the US can look forward to the first season’s arrival this fall/autumn on Ovation.

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Source: via Deadline.