Having kicked in our front doors with the pilot episode in February, Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong's comedy drama about the police force is back. A full series of Babylon is now shooting in and around London.

Brit Marling, James Nesbitt, Paterson Joseph, Bertie Carvel, Adam Deacon, Jill Halfpenny, Cavan Clerkin, Jonny Sweet and Nicola Walker are amongst the cast reprising their roles at different layers of the Metropolitan Police Force, an organisation which finds itself in the firing line both from criminals on the streets and from the press at Scotland Yard.

The series will see Director of Communications Liz Garvey (Marling) continuing in her efforts to try to drag the force into the new media age - while navigating scheming deputy Finn (Carvel), who is still determined to bring the American's bright new future crashing down.

It's the job of Commissioner Richard Miller (Nesbitt), Deputy Commissioner Charles Inglis (Joseph) and Assistant Commissioner Sharon Franklin (Walker) to keep the force ticking over and the city safe under the constant scrutiny of politicians, the public and the media.

Meanwhile out on the streets, the un-stable Robbie (Deacon) moves closer to his dream of being a Firearms Officer - but is this the kind of guy you really want carrying a gun? Public Order Specialists Davina (Halfpenny) and Clarkey (Clerkin) find their personal lives spilling over into the riot van; and in the Armed Response Unit, Tony (Stuart Martin) and Banjo (Andrew Brooke) must contend with the increasingly fragile emotional state of Warwick (Nick Blood), who has still not settled from the incident in which he shot an unarmed man.

The Force could soon have another problem on its hands too - documentary director Matt (Daniel Kaluuya) has plans for an expose that will stun the force - and the public...

Danny Boyle, who directed the pilot, is stepping back into an Executive Producer role for the series. Jon S. Baird, the director of the multi award-winning Filth, is overseeing the first three episodes of the six-part series, with Sally El Hosaini (awarded Best Newcomer at both BFI London Film Festival and the Evening Standard Film Awards for her debut feature My Brother the Devil) taking the helm for the other three episodes.

Misfits and Fresh Meat writer Jon Brown joined Bain & Armstrong on the writing team, to work on scripts for two of the episodes.

The six new hour-long episodes will be shown on Channel 4 this autumn.

In the below video linked to the pilot episode, Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong talk about creating Babylon: