Jakob Verbruggen, who directed the whole of the first season of The Fall, has stepped away from the second, leaving the BBC on the hunt for a new director.
Written and created by Allan Cubitt, the BBC Two drama is set in Belfast and stars Gillian Anderson as Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson, drafted in to assess a stalled murder investigation. Jamie Dornan plays Paul Spector, a softly spoken bereavement counsellor and family man who is, in secret, the serial killer she is hunting.
The first season ended without resolving that cat-and-mouse pursuit, and the second is expected to pick it straight back up. With Verbruggen moving on to other projects, the search for someone to take over behind the camera is now under way.