THE BBC has announced the new guest cast for the return of hit crime drama Shetland.
Acclaimed Scottish actor Clive Russell (The Witcher, Outlander) and Ellie Haddington (Motherland, Guilt) lead the guest cast alongside series favourites Ashley Jensen and Alison O’Donnell as filming begins on the new series.
Shetland will film in locations around Scotland as well as in the Shetland Isles over the coming months, with the series debuting on BBC One and iPlayer later this year.
Originally based on the award-winning novel series by crime writer Ann Cleeves, the new series sees sees Calder and Tosh travel to the isolated hamlet of Lunniswick to investigate the sinister killing of an elderly woman.
The team soon discover that the body of the retired social worker has been out in the elements for a number of days.
Tosh and Calder will excavate the victim’s life, past and present, as well as the lives of those who knew her.
Here is the full guest cast for series 10 of Shetland:
- Clive Russell (The Witcher, Sandman)
- Ellie Haddington (Motherland, Guilt)
- Niall MacGregor (The Bombing of Pan AM 103, Line of Duty)
- Greg McHugh (Guilt, The A Word)
- Frances Gray (Tom Jones, Vera)
- Louise Brealey (Such Brave Girls, Clique)
- Stuart Townsend (Into The Deep, Two Minutes to Midnight)
- Stephen McMillan (Toxic Town, Boiling Point)
- Saskia Ashdown (Karen Pirie, The Rig)
- Lila Rose (Traces)
- Joanne Thomson (Outlander, The Victim)
- Gabriel Akuwudike (Screw, The Beautiful Game)
- Leigh Biagi (The Prodigal Father, The Lost King)
Samuel Anderson (Amandaland, Back to Black) also joins the cast as the new procurator fiscal Matt Blake alongside series regulars Steven Robertson (playing DC Sandy Wilson), Lewis Howden (Sgt Billy McCabe), Anne Kidd (pathologist Cora McLean), Angus Miller (Donnie, Tosh’s partner), Conor McCarry (PC Alex Grant) and Eubha Akilade (PC Lorna Burns).
Gaynor Holmes, commissioning editor for the BBC said: “Now in its tenth series, Shetland continues to go from strength to strength and is loved by audiences across the UK and internationally.
"We’re very excited to see the fantastic creative team at Silverprint and their superbly talented cast and crew heading back into production with a compellingly new, gnarly and emotional murder-mystery.”
Kate Bartlett, executive producer for Silverprint Pictures added: “We're so excited about this new series of Shetland with Ashley and Alison, alongside our wonderful returning cast and a fantastic guest cast.
"Paul Logue has created a distinctive and emotionally complex story, set against the stunning and evocative landscape of the Shetland Isles. We're thrilled to be making this new series with such incredible Scottish talent in all areas of production.”
