Vigil is a British police procedural television drama series created by Tom Edge and produced by World Productions. The six-part first series, which aired on BBC One in August 2021 and it then premiered on Peacock, the streaming platform owned by NBCUniversal, in the United States on December 19, 2021. It featured Suranne Jones, Rose Leslie, Shaun Evans, Paterson Joseph, Gary Lewis and Martin Compston, is set in Scotland and much of the action takes place on HMS Vigil, a fictional ballistic missile submarine of the Royal Navy. The second series replaces the nautical setting of the first series for a land based drama featuring fictional prototype drone technology and aired in December 2023 and is set to premiere in the US on February 15, 2024 in the US on Peacock, again features Jones, Leslie and Lewis alongside Dougray Scott and Romola Garai, and is set in Scotland and the fictional Middle Eastern nation Wudyan.