Overview
- The BBC spin-off is back on BBC One and iPlayer, with the premiere revealing leadership has changed and the Shipton Abbott station must shrink by one post.
- DI Humphrey Goodman now has to choose who leaves the four-person team in a storyline presented as budget-driven cuts to local policing.
- Zahra Ahmadi, who plays DS Esther Williams, said Humphrey is in a painful spot and suggested Esther might volunteer to go, though the show has not revealed who will exit.
- New cases lean into local folklore, including a novelist who predicted their death, a Dark Morris celebration that turns sour, a resurfaced treasure map, and a supposed mermaid sighting, with guest roles for Melanie Walters, Vincent Franklin, Susan George, and others.
- Off screen, Kris Marshall described long shoots in Devon and Cornwall and stretches away from his children, noting his teenage son now prefers darker shows like Stranger Things.