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Land Girls, ±«Óãtv One Daytime's highly popular and award-winning drama, is to return for a second series. Liam Keelan, Controller of ±«Óãtv Daytime, has commissioned five new episodes of the uplifting original drama created by Roland Moore.

The second series of Land Girls returns to the rural Forties, and continues to examine how a whole generation of women helped the war effort, and adapted to their new lives working as part of the Women's Land Army.

Speaking about the new series, Liam Keelan says: "The first series of Land Girls was something completely new for ±«Óãtv One Daytime, as it was the first time a period drama had been commissioned and made for the daytime audience.

"It proved to be such a success with our viewers that I'm delighted to be able to announce the commission of a second series."

He adds: "The first series of Land Girls was commissioned as part of a range of programming across the ±«Óãtv commemorating the 70th anniversary of the start of the Second World War, and we hope that this second series will again be a tribute to the women who played such an important role on the home front."

Land Girls, made by the team behind ±«Óãtv Birmingham's award-winning Doctors, will once again be filmed on location in and around the West Midlands, and the executive producers are Will Trotter and John Yorke.

Will Trotter says: "Making an original costume drama is creatively liberating, and is compulsive viewing for the audience.

"It's too early to be able to reveal which of our characters we'll be meeting up with again, but viewers can be assured that we'll see some old faces and meet some new ones.

"Land Girls will continue to follow the lives and loves of the women as they work the fields and forge friendships that will last a lifetime, in an experience that will change them forever."

The recommission of Land Girls follows the announcement of The Indian Doctor starring Sanjeev Bhaskar, a new drama due on ±«Óãtv One Daytime later in the year; a new series of Missing starring Pauline Quirke, due on air this March; and a second series of Moving On, currently filming in Liverpool, and due on air later this year.

Filming on Land Girls begins later this year and the series is due to transmit in Winter 2010/11.

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