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Broadchurch second series trail: why the long faces?

Broadchurch 2 Tennant
David Tennant’s puppy-eyes party trick from the trailer for the second series of Broadchurch. Photograph: ITV

Spoiler alert: judging by the new Broadchurch series 2 promo, everyone’s really miserable. Really, really miserable.

David Tennant can’t find his razor ...

David Tennant hates sunny mornings
David Tennant hates sunny mornings Photograph: ITV

Olivia Coleman’s forgotten the words to that Muppets song ...

Halfway down the stairs ... is a stair where I sit
Halfway down the stairs ... is a stair where I sit Photograph: ITV

And Jodie Whittaker’s auditioning for the Juliet Stevenson role in a Truly Madly Deeply remake ...

The sun ain't gonna shine anymore?
The sun ain’t gonna shine anymore? Photograph: ITV

The one-minute trailer for the show, which returns to ITV on 5 January, plays out to Old Faces, a track sung by emerging star Laura Doggett. Monkey’s catching more than a whiff of The Bridge theme song, here.

Familiar series one faces Tennant, Colman, Whittaker and Andrew Buchan will be rubbing shoulders with new and as-yet-unknown characters played by Marianne Jean Baptiste, Charlotte Rampling and James Darcy.

The tagline for the trail is “same town: new secrets”. So what have we learned so far? To quote Philip Henslowe: “I don’t know ... it’s a mystery.”

Trailer for the second series of ITV’s Broadchurch, returning 5 January
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