Dead Reckoning

Tim Roth lives to fight another day in a thrilling new series of Tin Star.

- Benji Wilson

The last time we saw Tim Roth as police chief Jim Worth in Tin Star, things weren’t looking good. He’d just been shot on a mountain in the remotest Rockies by his own daughter Anna (Abigail Lawrie) as his despairing wife Angela (Genevieve O’Reilly) looked on. As the credits rolled, Jim appeared to be very dead.

So it’s pleasing to be able to report that as a second season of Tin Star lands on Sky Atlantic this week, Roth will once again be heading up the cast.

‘It turns out Jim’s daughter has got an awful aim,’ laughs the 57-year-old star when he meets up with TV&Satellite Week after wrapping filming in Canada. ‘In fact, Jim has to have a few words with her about that in the new series!’

Series one saw Jim, a former undercover detective with the Metropolitan Police, move with his family from the UK to the Canadian Rockies in a bid to leave behind his past and his demons. But what should have been an escape to a quiet life soon descended into chaos, as Jim ran up against oil executive Elizabeth Bradshaw (Christina Hendricks), and found it impossible to leave his history – and his violent and alcoholic alter ego Jack – behind.