ITV have commissioned a second series of the police drama consisting of three more feature-length episodes. Filming on series two was supposed to have commenced in May 2020 but has been postponed until further notice due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The unofficial HQ for Van der Valk's team is the 130-year-old Café Scheltema, once the home of generations of Dutch journalists (when it was dubbed the Fleet Street of the Netherlands). It can be found at Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 242 in Amsterdam.
Van der Valk's fishing trawler home - Spartacus - is available for hire in reality.
Van der Valk can be seen wearing G Star jeans, which were founded in Amsterdam in 1989.
The art gallery in S01 is not in Bos en Lommer. The policestation is.