BBC drama The Gold set to be renewed for a second season after debut series ends in shocking twist

BBC One’s The Gold will be renewed for a second season, after the debut series ended with a shocking plot twist.

Fans are in for a big surprise when the finale airs this Sunday, delivering a big twist that paves the way for a sequel.

crime series is based on the infamous £26 million Brink’s-Mat heist in 1983 and stars Jack Lowden and Hugh Bonneville.

Jack plays Kenneth Noye, the ambitious thief who arranged for the smelting and sale of the bulk of £26 million worth of gold bullion.

Now according to Sunthe upcoming season will now explore in greater detail the stories of other crime figures such as Charlie Wilson, the major train robber who attempted to launder money through Pablo Escobar’s drug ring.

A TV source told the publication: “This will be music to the ears of fans, some of whom have already watched all the episodes on iPlayer.”

“Although all channels and streamers like to relive true crime stories, The Gold seems to have captured people’s imaginations.

“Not only is it a nostalgic journey filled with 1980s cars, clothes and music, but it offers a deeper look into the backgrounds of the criminals involved.”

“Now they’re going to explore even more of the characters involved in the original crime.”

Building on the success of the true crime adaptation, in which the ‘Paddington’ star, 59, plays Detective Superintendent Brian Boyce and the ‘Slow Horses’ star, 32, takes on the thief of the real life Kenneth Noye, the BBC has also commissioned a unique hour-long documentary exploring the investigation, ‘The Gold: The Inside Story’.

Speaking publicly for the first time in almost 40 years about the case, Brian says on the show: ‘Our task was so much bigger than just arresting the thieves, we hadn’t even recovered the gold dust. We had to work very hard, follow the trail and recover as much gold as possible.’

Simon Young, BBC History director, added: “Few robberies are as iconic as the Brink’s-Mat or have had such a profound effect on the country.”

“That’s why it’s so fascinating to hear Brian Boyce and his colleagues give such a candid and unvarnished account of the challenges police faced in trying to solve such a colossal crime.”

The Brink’s-Mat robbery, which netted the gang £26 million worth of haul of pure gold, diamonds and cash (about £100 million today), has previously been called the crime of the century.

London’s Docklands were built partly on their ill-gotten gains, and the party drug ecstasy was first introduced to the UK with money from Brink’s-Mat.

It has been claimed that anyone wearing gold jewelery bought in the UK after 1983 is probably wearing Brink’s Mat, while in what has become known as the ‘Brink’s-Mat Curse’ around 20 people linked to the crime have been murdered.

It is estimated that up to 50 percent of the gold has yet to be recovered.

Shortly after 6:40 a.m. on 26 November 1983, six armed men in balaclavas, one of them wearing a trilby, entered a warehouse at Heathrow Airport.

The property belonged to the security company Brink’s Mat and the thieves were there because they knew there was £3 million in cash in the vault. They knew because their infiltrator, security guard Anthony Black, had told them. He even opened the warehouse door to let them in.

Led by Black’s brother-in-law Brian Robinson and Michael ‘Micky’ McAvoy, wearing a Trilby hat, the gang tied up the guards and doused them with gasoline, threatening to ignite it if they didn’t comply.

Thanks to Black, they were able to identify the two most senior guards who, between them, had the keys and combination numbers to the vault where three safes were located.

Inside were more than three tons of gold bars. Packed in more than 70 cardboard boxes were almost 7,000 gold bars. Someone had to go get the van.

Loaded with loads of gold, the van left Heathrow after one of the thieves wished security guards a Merry Christmas.

It didn’t take long for the police to link Black to the raid and soon implicated Robinson and McAvoy (who beat up Black when he went to identify him at a police line-up).

The couple hadn’t exactly gone unnoticed after the robbery, spending cash at a property in Kent. It was rumored that McAvoy had bought two Rottweilers to guard his new home and named them Brinks and Mat.

The two were subsequently sentenced to 25 years in prison. Black was sentenced to six years. Stealing the gold had been relatively easy. The biggest challenge was selling it.

The robbers turned to crime boss Kenneth Noye, who, along with another criminal, Brian Reader, handled the gold. It was regularly taken to a foundry near Bristol, where it was mixed with copper and brass to make it look like scrap gold.

Around £13 million was made available in this way. The movement of cash through a local bank soon aroused the suspicion of the Bank of England and surveillance operations by known villains began.

Noye appeared in court in 1986 after police found 11 gold bars worth £100,000 at his premises. He was found guilty of handling Brink’s Mat gold and was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Meanwhile, the drama, starring Hugh Bonneville, Jack Lowden, Dominic Cooper and Charlotte Spencer, tells the story of the aftermath of the daring robbery and reveals how the surprising loot became as much of a problem for the gang as it was a jackpot. .

The series follows career criminal Noye trying to stay one step ahead of the police.