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Two Weeks in August Debuts on BBC

Catherine Shepherd’s eight-part holiday thriller uses psychological insight and a real Corfu moment to shape a tense, character-driven drama.

Overview

  • The series premiered on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, with the first episodes released on Saturday 23 May and new instalments scheduled weekly on Saturday nights.
  • Two Weeks in August follows a group of university friends whose reunion holiday spirals into danger after an illicit kiss, and the show avoids revealing major plot twists in its marketing.
  • Production was filmed across Malta and Gozo as a stand-in for Greece, using a composite villa near southern Malta cliffs and locations such as Ghar Lapsi, Mġarr ix-Xini and Dwejra Cliffs.
  • Jessica Raine leads an ensemble cast that includes Damien Molony, Antonia Thomas, Nicholas Pinnock, Leila Farzad and Hugh Skinner, with Tom George directing episodes 1–4 and Matthew Moore 5–8.
  • Creator Shepherd drew on a real Corfu memory and worked with a psychologist during development to shape characters and themes of class, mental health and interpersonal strain, and early audience reaction has been mixed with some complaints about muffled sound.