Country of origin Australia Original network SoHo | No. of episodes 12 | |
Original release 20 May (2014-05-20) – 5 August 2014 (2014-08-05) | ||
The second season of the crime drama television series Wentworth premiered on SoHo in Australia on 20 May 2014. It was executively produced by FremantleMedia's director of drama Jo Porter. The season consisted of 12 episodes.
Contents
The second season picks up three months after Bea Smith murdered Jacs Holt. While Bea was suffering in the slot, Franky Doyle rose to the position of top dog unopposed. However, the introduction of a new governor, Joan Ferguson is about to shake everything up.
Production
Wentworth was commissioned for a second season on 5 June 2013. The executive director of Foxtel Television, Brian Walsh stated of the renewal, "Wentworth's bold storytelling has attracted a record-breaking response from our Foxtel customers. This drama, tailor-made for Australian subscription television, is capturing local and international attention sparked by its Prisoner heritage." The director of production company, Fremantle Media Australia and executive producer of Wentworth, Jo Porter stated "We have assembled an extraordinary team of writers who can't wait to get started on season two. We have so many more stories to tell."
Filming
Filming for the 12-part second season began in the purpose built set in Clayton, Victoria, Melbourne on 23 September 2013 and wrapped on 13 February 2014.
Crew
Amanda Crittenden continues on as Wentworth producer. Kevin Carlin and Catherine Millar will return as directors and will be joined by Pino Amenta, Steve Jodrell and Dee McLachlan. Marcia Gardner will become script producer and part of the writing team alongside Tim Hobart, Pete McTighe and John Ridley.
Casting
It was revealed that iconic Prisoner character Joan "The Freak" Ferguson, a sinster, lesbian prison officer, would be introduced in the second season. Porter commented "Prisoner offered up a very rich well of amazing characters to draw upon and the Wentworth writers are very excited about revisiting the character of prison officer Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson in our second season." On 21 September 2013, it was confirmed that Pamela Rabe had been cast as Joan Ferguson.
Kris McQuade (Jacs Holt), Catherine McClements (Meg Jackson) and Leeanna Walsman (Erica Davidson) did not reprise their respective roles for the second season. Katrina Milosevic, who portrays Sue "Boomer" Jenkins was upgraded to the main cast, as was Rabe.