The second season of
A Discovery Of Witches picked up the story of historian (and witch-in-training) Diana Bishop and vampire Matthew Clairmont as they fled through time to Elizabethan London to escape sinister witch Peter Knox.
While Diana s aunts Sarah and Em hid out at the de Clermont family mansion, Sept-Tours, Matthew s vampire son Marcus vowed to protect his daemon friends Nathaniel and pregnant Sophie from Knox and fellow scheming members of the Congregation, while also beginning a romance with auctioneer Phoebe.
By the end of the season, Diana and Matthew were finishing their adventures in 16
th century London and preparing to time-walk back to modern day Sept-Tours. Unfortunately, if and when they get there they will be met with tragedy – Peter Knox, fascinated by Sophie s newborn baby, who is a witch, has beat them to it.
Thursday, 4th February 2021 at 7:14 pm
The final episode of A Discovery of Witches’ second series airs on Sky One on Friday 12th March, bringing another action-packed season to a close.
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And luckily fans won’t have to wait quite so long between seasons as they did last time out: while there was a gap of more than two years between the first and second run, there’s little chance of that being the case this time around, with season three filming having already wrapped.
The news that production had concluded in February was followed by a steady stream of casting announcements later in the same month, with five new additions revealed alongside a major recasting.