Unlike most Netflix

shows, the spy thriller series Black Doves

avoided the merciless swing of the streamer’s axe and will return for a second season. Now, while details largely remain under wraps, a new production update reveals when Black Doves Season 2 will begin filming, allowing us to speculate when it will land on the streamer.

According to a report by What’s on Netflix, Black Doves Season 2 is all set to start filming in July 2025, with Keira Knightley

all set to return as the super spy Helen Webb. This latest suggests that fans will be waiting a little while yet before returning to the thrilling world of Black Doves, with Season 2 likely to debut on Netflix in either spring or summer 2026.

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Created by Joe Barton (The Lazarus Project, The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself), Black Doves stars Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw alongside Sarah Lancashire (Happy Valley), Andrew Koji (Bullet Train), Andrew Buchan (Industry), Omari Douglas (It’s a Sin), and Kathryn Hunter (The Tragedy of Macbeth). You can check out the official synopsis for the series below.

When a spy posing as a politician’s wife learns her lover has been murdered, an old assassin friend joins her on a quest for truth — and vengeance.

Netflix Delivers a Unique Action Thriller With ‘Black Doves’

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Black Doves Season 1 was a huge hit for Netflix after landing on the streaming platform at the end of last year. The action thriller series now stands at a “Certified Fresh” rating of 94% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, who praised the successful blending of genres, Keira Knightley’s lead performance, and how creator Joe Barton has crafted a truly unique action thriller. MovieWeb’s own Greg Archer called the series a “slick, addictive outing that Keira Knightley can sink her creative teeth into,” adding…

“It’s a plot-twist-filled drama that finds Knightley as a conflicted spy whose personal life, career, and past suddenly collide. It’s a career high for the actress, who is in great company with a solid cast featuring Ben Whishaw (No Time to Die, TV’s Fargo), Sarah Lancashire (Julia, Happy Valley), Wallace Webb, Omari Douglas, and Sam Troughton.”

Speaking with Netflix Tudum following the release of the first season, Barton teased the plot of Black Doves Season 2, revealing that he likes the idea of seeing Helen getting “pulled deeper into the world of spies having been so close to leaving.” As her husband, Wallace, edges closer to the top job as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, this inevitably “increases the pressure and the danger on her as a spy.”

“Just seeing the tension of that, seeing Sam back in London … I would like to see more Eleanor and Williams, Kai-Ming, all those people. I’d like to start to throw them up against one another again, and maybe make things more dangerous and challenging for them.”

Keira Knightley, meanwhile, has revealed her plans for Black Doves Season 2, revealing who she would love to kill. And her choice is pretty understandable. “I want to kill Dani,” the actress declared. “I don’t think it’s OK that she tried to f*ck my husband and kill me on Christmas Eve.”
Source: What’s on Netflix

Black Doves

4.5
/5

Release Date

December 5, 2024

Network

Netflix

Directors

Lisa Gunning