Sally Wainwright’s multiple award-winning gritty BBC cop drama “Happy Valley,” which first premiered in 2014, is set to return with a third and final season to shoot in 2022 – more than six years after the previous season wrapped.
Sarah Lancashire is set to return as Sergeant Catherine Cawood for six new hour-long episodes. James Norton will also reprise his role of her nemesis, murderer Tommy Lee Royce. Siobhan Finneran will also return as her sister, the recovering addict Clare Cartwright.
The new season sees Cawood, on the cusp of retirement, discovering the remains of a gangland murder victim and sparking a chain of events that leads her back to Royce.
Her now sixteen-year-old grandson is still living with her, but he has ideas of his own about what kind of relationship he wants to have with the man she refuses to acknowledge as his father.
BBC Studios-owned Lookout Point will serve as the production company this time, replacing StudioCanal-backed Red Production Company.
In the U.S., Netflix originally had exclusive rights to both the first two seasons. Here though, AMC has joined as co-producer and will be the new season’s North American home. All three seasons will ultimately be available on AMC+.
Source: THR
