True Detective coming to NZ screens in June

A launch date has been set for the much-anticipated return of HBO's True Detective series.

Sky will screen the second series in New Zealand on its Soho channel, the same day it premieres in America, June 22.

It will screen every Monday at 8.30pm with repeats on Sunday nights.

Colin Farrell, Vince Vaughan, Taylor Kitsch and Rachel McAdams will star in the second series of the captivating crime drama, which took the world by storm last year.

HBO tweeted a first look at its two new posters for the series overnight, which read "We get the world we deserve".

We get the world we deserve. #TrueDetective pic.twitter.com/joLQ4R5b1H

— True Detective (@TrueDetective) April 22, 2015

We get the world we deserve. #TrueDetective pic.twitter.com/iTkuP2t04n

— True Detective (@TrueDetective) April 22, 2015

Farrell will play a detective under the thumb of a mobster and Vaughn a career criminal in the award-winning show.

The first series of True Detective, co-starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson on the hunt of a serial killer in Louisiana, was a critical and popular hit, winning five Primetime Emmy awards.

The new season will tell the story of "three police officers and a career criminal (who) must navigate a web of conspiracy in the aftermath of a murder," HBO said in a statement last year.

Farrell will play Ray Velcoro, "a compromised detective whose allegiances are torn between his masters in a corrupt police department and the mobster who owns him."

Vaughn meanwhile will play Frank Semyon, "a career criminal in danger of losing his empire when his move into legitimate enterprise is upended by the murder of a business partner."

- nzherald.co.nz with AFP