Alibi has renewed Traces for a second series, ordering a further six episodes of the Scottish-set forensic crime drama.
Co-created by best-selling crime novelist Val McDermid and written by Amelia Bullmore, Traces is set in and around Dundee at the fictional Scottish Institute of Forensic Science and Anatomy, where a team of forensic scientists work to solve a murder case with personal ties to one of their own. The first series premiered on the channel in December 2019 and became Alibi’s biggest launch since 2011, averaging close to a million viewers an episode.
The series is produced by RED Production Company, the company behind Years and Years and The Stranger, for UKTV and BBC Studios. Nicola Shindler executive produces, with Amelia Bullmore returning to write the second series alongside Jess Williams.
Traces stars Molly Windsor as lab technician Emma Hedges, with Laura Fraser and Jennifer Spence as the forensic professors she works alongside. The first series was later picked up for a primetime repeat run on BBC One.