ITV has confirmed that a second series of The Durrells has been commissioned. Keeley Hawes will reprise her role as Louisa Durrell as she and the rest of the cast return to Corfu to film series two.

The conservationist Gerald Durrell’s first dog, Simon, was a coward. To the honey-coloured cocker spaniel, a garden hose was as deadly as a spitting cobra, and he once went into a nervous decline ...