The hit original WGN series Manhattan happily announced that the successful fictional historical drama will have its sequel to Season 1. Manhattan Season 2 will be literally explosive as the scientists and residents of The Hills continue with the Manhattan Project.
When Will announced last 16 July that WGN America, television network owned by Tribune Broadcasting, released the premiere date for Manhattan Season 2 which will be on 13 October this year. Production and shooting for Season 2 already started last March. The second season of the series will be consist of 10 episodes.
The official teaser for Season 2 shows Smitty (Nathaniel Augustson), Abby Isaacs (Rachel Brosnahan), Jim Meeks (Christopher Denham), Scientist (Richard Beal), Callie Winter (Alexia Fast), and Stanhope (Ryan Jason Cook) inside a room and being interrogated. Watch the Manhattan Season 2 official trailer here.
Season 2 will detail how the Trinity Atomic Test, the first ever explosion of an atomic bomb, transpired in 1945. The coming season will be emotionally intense as the characters are challenged in their commitment to one of the world's significant account. Season 2 will answer "How much evil does it take to do good?"
Viewers will also see new characters and faces in the series, Time revealed. Mamie Gummer from The Ward will be one of the latest additions to the cast. She will play Nora, a spy of the Soviets. A journalist will also blend in with the secretive world of The Hills. Griffin Dunne (Dallas Buyers Club) takes the role of yet an unnamed journalist. William Petersen (CSI) will also join the cast as Colonel Emmett Darrow.
Manhattan Season 1 had an estimated 1.2 million viewers per episode, an indicator that a series will have a spin-off. The series is WGN America's second original series based on the period of the Manhattan Project back in 1943. Although the setting, which is Los Alamos, Mexico, and other references are real, the story and characters are fictitious.
Manhattan Season 2 is created for television by Sam Shaw and directed by Thomas Schlamme, who also executive produce with Dustin Thomason, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Marcy Ross.
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