Foxtel Confirms 'True Detective' Season Two Airing Details

Foxtel has confirmed that it will be expressing episodes of the new season of acclaimed HBO drama True Detective direct from the US when it screens early next year.

The anthology crime series — the second season of which recently confirmed its leads as Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn — will air from January 2015 on Foxtel's Showcase channel.

The news comes hot on the heels of Farrell and Vaughn's announcement as the two central characters for season two, playing a world-weary cop and a career criminal respectively. The wider plot has been unveiled as following Farrell's Ray Velcoro, a "compromised" detective with allegiances to both the corrupt police department and the mobster who "owns" him, who is forced to navigate a web of conspiracy with two other police officers after the business partner of crime boss Frank Semyon (Vaughn) is murdered and his empire left imperilled.

Additional cast members are yet to be revealed — including an as-yet unidentified female police officer, which is either an (exceedingly) minor victory for equality or a cynical platitude of an inclusion by a male-centric show, depending on your perspective.

Season two of True Detective is set to start filming in California in the near future; series creator Nic Pizzolatto will return to write all eight episodes, while Fast And Furious director Justin Lin has signed on to steer the first two episodes of the new series.