COSTA DEL NIGHTMARE! "MAD DOGS" SERIES TWO

Head-ing for trouble, those MAD DOGS (left to right: Max Beesley, Philip Glenister, John Simm and Marc Warren) are probably wishing they'd gone to Florida! It's time for Season Two of MAD DOGS. Image: LEFT BANK PICTURES.

Literally in it up to their necks in bovver, those four mid-life crisis friends (Woody (Max Beesley), Rick (Marc Warren), Baxter (John Simm) and Quinn (Philip Glenister)) continue having the worst time you could ever experience on a holiday island, returning for the second series of SKY ONE HD's inventive and high quality black comedy/drama series MAD DOGS (from next Thursday 19th). And things looked particularly bleak last year for Quinn, who, having shot the crooked police woman Maria (Maria Botto), valiantly decided to sacrifice himself to the looming presence of Spanish hitman Dominic (Tim Woodward) so as to let his three friends escape to Ibiza-and even further away if possible!- from the trouble they had accidentally, and foolhardily, got themselves ensconced in during the four terrifically enjoyable and surreal episodes of Season One, which quickly went on to garner strong ratings and very loyal audience appreciation.

With the aforementioned Quinn's fate having looked decidedly sealed, this new season literally picks up mere minutes after that inventively shot and acted closing scene, going into a new scenario described by the cast as "a bit of a road movie" that looks set to multiple everything bad by a factor of twenty, and within a bold and even more ambitious storyline which the shows producers promise is more explosive and inventive than what had been seen previously in Season One, introducing a plot that brings more death and rigor mortis (of which Rick had prior become an expert in the field!), that 3 million euros of drug money, an exploding caravan, and a strange and surely to be iconic new character called "Wheezy"- described in the press as an "obsessive, oxygen tank carrying OAP." It'll be interesting to see if this new character creation can possibly top the deadly and highly memorable antics of actor Tomas Pozzi, seen last year as the brilliant little "Tony Blair" killer!

Once more written by creator Cris Cole, and now directed by James Hawes, best known for his inventive work on the BBC's DOCTOR WHO and MERLIN, here's the current trailer for the series, with added goats and religious iconography no less: 'Mad Dogs': Series 2 teaser trailer