HBO’s True Detective managed to win the top international award at the BAFTA TV Awards recently held in London. It beat a stellar line up of The Good Wife, House of Cards and Orange Is The New Black .
Season 1 of True Detectives starred Matthew McConaughey as Detective Rust Cohle and Woody Harrelson as Detective Marty Hart.
“An anthology police detective series in which investigations seem to unearth both personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.”
While fans loved the first season of True Detective , Season 2 will see a complete shift in characters and story line as the show’s producer, Nic Pizzolatto, recently told Medium , although he is determined to stay true to the original essence of the True Detectives series.
“There’s no relationship between the stories or characters, which was the result of fully committing to something new, but I do think that the seasons have a deep, close bond in sensibility and vision, a similar soul, though this is a more complex world and field of characters.”
The director also addressed those occult rumors circulating about Season 2 of True Detective after an earlier comment he made in relation to Season 2 being about “Bad men, hard women, and the secret occult history of the U.S. transportation system.” While he did originally think True Detective could follow an occult theme in Season 2, since that first comment, he has moved the show away from this direction and more towards a “closer character work and a more grounded crime story.” There will also be less storytelling flashbacks and no confusing leaps in Season 2 of True Detectives .
Some of the other winners included (winners in bold and list courtesy of The Wrap ) the following.
Leading actress Georgina Campbell – Murdered by My Boyfriend Keeley Hawes – Line of Duty Sarah Lancashire – Happy Valley Sheridan Smith – Cilla
Leading actor Jason Watkins – The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies Benedict Cumberbatch – Sherlock Toby Jones – Marvellous James Nesbitt – The Missing
Radio Times Audience Award (voted for by members of the public) Sherlock Cilla Eastenders Game of Thrones The Great British Bake Off The Missing Strictly Come Dancing
Supporting actress Gemma Jones – Marvellous Vicky McClure – Line of Duty Amanda Redman – Tommy Cooper: Not like That, Like This Charlotte Spencer – Glueme
Comedy and comedy entertainment program The Graham Norton Show Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle Would I Lie To You
Supporting actor Stephen Rea – The Honourable Woman Adeel Akhtar – Utopia James Norton – Happy Valley Ken Stott – The Missing
Features Grand Designs George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces The Great British Bake Off Long Lost Family
International True Detective The Good Wife House of Cards Orange Is The New Black
Reality and constructed factual The Island With Bear Grylls The Apprentice I’m A Celebrity… GET ME OUT OF HERE! The Undateables
You can read the complete list of BAFTA winners here .
Season 2 of True Detectives stars Colin Farrell, Vince Vaughn, Rachel McAdams, and Taylor Kitsch. It is scheduled to premiere on June 21, 2015, and the promo posters have recently been released with the ominous catchphrase of “We get the world we deserve.” You can view the Season 2 trailer of True Detective here .
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