Procedural crime thriller series Happy Valley is returning for a third and final season, the BBC has confirmed, six years on from the release of the show's second series. The new six-part series will see the return of the show's major cast members, including Sarah Lancashire and James Norton and is set to be the finale season of the award-winning crime drama. The release date for season three has now been confirmed and we don't have long to wait! Here's everything else we know about Happy Valley season three. Lord Erroll's murder was also dramatised in the feature film White Mischief, which was released seven months after the first transmission of The Happy Valley. [2] See also [ edit ]

As it turns out, Mr Bhatti is dealing prescription drugs off-books to other residents, and this soon earns him a visit from Ivan and Matija, two men who come to warn him about his arrangement and threaten him into continuing to supply drugs but paying money to them instead. Amit Shah ( The Long Call), Mark Stanley ( The Girl Before), and Mollie Winnard ( Four Lives) have joined the cast for series three. The anticipated episode 3 saw Catherine confronting Clare, now that she knew she had betrayed her and was taking Ryan to see Tommy Lee. Even more dark truths were revealed when Catherine discovered thatRyan had been writing to his incarcerated biological father since he was 10. Here’s how to watch Happy Valley in the US for free to see why Esquire called it “better than anything HBO or FX or AMC or any of the streamers has produced in a decade” and The Independent dubbed it “one of British television’s greatest sagas.” How to watch Happy Valleyin the US Once PureVPN is set up, change your location to the “UK” by searching for the country in the right barThere are three seasons of Happy Valley and Wainwright has made it clear there’ll be no more. “We made a definite decision that this was going to be the final season,” she told RadioTimes on January 15, 2023. “Just because it’s been successful, we weren’t going to let it drift on until it became a pale shadow of itself.” Perhaps so, as Joanna revealed to Faisal Bhattithat she has plans to poison her husband so that she and her children can be free, but we don't know if she'll actually go through with it yet. We'll have to tune in to episode 3 to see how the story progresses. What happened in episode three? With this information in hand, Catherine followed her sister to Sheffield and phoned her while she sat outside the cafe, watching angrily as she lied to her and claimed she was in Leeds. But Clare had nowhere to hide when Catherine entered the cafe and sat before her sister, which is where this episode ended. Fans are now waiting impatiently to find out how this goes down! Plus, there are some brand new actors set to star. New cast members include: Amit Shah (who starred in Crashing alongside Phoebe Waller-Bridge ), Mark Stanley ( The Girl Before and Anne Boleyn), and Mollie Winnard (who we've recently seen in All Creatures Great and Small and Four Lives). The new names will be joining Happy Valley season three in "pivotal roles", the BBC have said . However, the characters they'll be playing haven't yet been announced. This was the first set picture from Happy Valley season 3. (Image credit: BBC/Lookout Point/Matt Squire) Happy Valley season 3 cast

James Norton says: "To take on Tommy one final time is a wonderful and daunting privilege and something I've been looking forward to since we wrapped the last series, six years ago. I'm so excited to be working with the insanely talented Sally and Sarah again. Thinking we should all go on one last barge holiday, for old times' sake." In response to why it’s been such a long break between the second and third seasons, Wainwright told Variety : “It was always the plan to leave the gap because I wanted Ryan [ Rhys Connah] to be old enough and have agency in the world to make his own decisions and form his own opinions that aren’t a childish reaction,” she said. “So, more or less the right amount of time has elapsed. He was nine in the last series and he’s 16 in this series. I think if he’d been any younger, it would have felt a bit less credible, but he is now able to make choices and be slightly more independent.” Siobhan added: “I’m so thrilled to be returning to Happy Valleyas Clare, and delighted to now be able to answer the question: “Please tell me there’s going to be another Happy Valley?” with a resounding “Yes there is.”” It is set in the British colony of Kenya in the 1940s, and tells the true story of the murder of Josslyn Victor Hay, the 22nd Earl of Erroll, as seen through the eyes of 15-year-old Juanita Carberry, the daughter of John Carberry, a friend of Broughton's. [1] Cast [ edit ] Previously, she said said she hopes this will be "the best season yet," and if the BBC's synopsis is anything to go by she's not wrong;

Throughout the seasons’ six episodes each, Catherine’s lives as a police officer and grieving, vengeful mother intertwine in the most genius way. It’s what makes this show such compelling viewing and an absolute must if you’ve gotten tired of the same old police dramas. Who’s in the cast of Happy Valley? Faisal Bhatti (left) found himself in hot water in episode one. (Image credit: BBC/Lookout Point/Matt Squire) What happened in episode two? The cast of the BAFTA-winning series is small but the beauty is that we really get to know these characters across three short seasons. Here’s the total list: Elsewhere, Joanna's body was tragically stuffed into a suitcase and left at her home, which was found by her husband Rob, who was heartbroken. Despite treating her appallingly throughout the series, it was clear he was devastated by her death.