Scott & Bailey to return for a 'sinister' three-part series

Popular Suranne Jones crime drama Scott & Bailey is tor return for a standalone, three-part special featuring a single crime story.

The three-part format will allow the story to unfold with scale and ambition as Scott & Bailey tackle one of the biggest and darkest cases they have ever had to face.

Suranne said: “I’m very excited to be returning to the series as Rachel Bailey and this time to be working alongside Nicola Shindler as an executive producer."

Nicola, Red Production Company founder, said: "We’re delighted to be returning to Scott & Bailey with an investigation that will have everlasting consequences for the characters. This series is more ambitious and sinister than ever before and the concept of a three-part story allows us the opportunity to tackle a story of epic scale and ambition."

Both Suranne and Lesley Sharp return to the roles of the unflappable Scott and her hotheaded partner DS Bailey, the crime-solving duo who have been together for popular series since its launch on ITV in 2011.

 

The three-part drama sees the return of Rachel to Syndicate 9’s Murder Squad, joining Janet (Lesley Sharp) and the squad in a terrifying and sinister internet crime investigation of epic scale and unrelenting horror. Using her Vice authorisation, Rachel accesses a disturbing world where people brag about committing murder and lay down the gauntlet for the next victim. 

A game of ruthless life or death daring develops, as Scott & Bailey investigate multiple killers with horrifying consequences. They will be changed forever and the investigation will take a devastating toll on their private, professional and personal lives.

There's no broadcast date for the new series of Scott & Bailey.

 

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.