From SAS: Rogue Heroes to This Is Going To Hurt, some truly excellent new TV shows arrived on our screens in 2022. We saw the triumphant returns of established faves – Industry and Stranger Things, how we’d missed you – and mourned the loss of some long-running gems (we’ll never forget you, Peaky Blinders). All in all, it was a pretty vintage year for television.

Happily, 2023 is set to be just as exciting, with plenty of good stuff on the horizon. Stuff like a Bonnie and Clyde-style sitcom starring Romesh Ranganathan and Katherine Ryan as a couple who turn to crime to pay for IVF. Like an intimate portrait of four sisters dealing with a devastating bereavement. Like a gripping detective series set between London and Jamaica, written by a Booker Prize-winning novelist. Like a game show hosted by none other than Danny Dyer. And that’s just for starters.

All in all, UK channels and streamers have proved they can still be relied upon to keep us entertained – whatever’s going on in the wider world. Read on and get a load of what’s to come.

1. Kaleidoscope

Find it in Apps & Games > Netflix from New Year’s Day

This is intriguing: Kaleidoscope is a new limited series on Netflix, and you can watch the episodes in any order you like as they build up to the finale. Starring Giancarlo Esposito (The Mandalorian), Paz Vega (The OA), Rufus Sewell (The Man In The High Castle) and Tati Gabrielle (You), each standalone episode illuminates a different aspect of a major bank heist. Some episodes depict the build-up to the heist, while others are set long before or after it. Get ready to choose your own adventure.

2. Romantic Getaway

Starts on Sky Comedy/HD (CH 135/123) on New Year’s Day

Romesh Ranganathan and Katherine Ryan co-star in this six-part comedy drama, billed as a “high-octane, modern Bonnie and Clyde story”. After countless expensive and unsuccessful rounds of IVF, Alison (Ryan) and Deacon (Ranganathan) have lots of debt and no money for more attempts. Desperate to become parents, their solution is to steal – and avoid getting caught.

3. Stonehouse

Starts on ITV1 HD (CH 113/103) and in Apps & Games > ITVX on Monday 2 January

Emmy-winning star Matthew Macfadyen leads this three-part drama based on the true story of disgraced British politician John Stonehouse. Once a darling of Harold Wilson’s Labour government, Stonehouse later found himself facing allegations of fraud and spying. In 1974, he tried to fake his own death and start a new life in Australia – leaving his loving wife Barbara (Macfadyen’s IRL wife Keeley Hawes) and three young children behind.

4. Our Flag Means Death

Starts on BBC Two HD (CH 102) and in Apps & Games > BBC iPlayer on Wednesday 4 January

From executive producer Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok) comes this jolly period comedy, which received rave reviews when it premiered in the US in 2022. It’s loosely based on the true adventures of 18th-century would-be pirate Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby, Flight Of The Conchords), who trades the life of a gentleman for one of a swashbuckling buccaneer. This change-up requires him to learn how to survive life on the high seas and earn the respect of a surly crew – which is easier said than done. The ensemble cast includes Nathan Foad (Newark, Newark), Samson Kayo (Bloods), Rory Kinnear (Men), Leslie Jones (Ghostbusters) and Waititi himself as legendary pirate Blackbeard.

5. A Murder In The Family

Find it in Apps & Games > ITVX from Thursday 5 January

Each film in this new true crime series investigates a shocking murder where the victim and perpetrator were related. Found footage from victims’ social media videos, police bodycam film, text messages and call recordings are pieced together to tell each victim’s story from their point of view, exploring how ordinary relationships can take “extraordinary and ultimately tragic turns”.

6. The Rig

Find it in Apps & Games > Prime Video from Friday 6 January

In this thriller series, the crew of an oil rig off the Scottish coast are preparing to return home when a mysterious fog cuts off all communication with the mainland. Trapped above the dangerous waters of the North Sea, tensions rise and loyalties fracture amid fears that something supernatural is at play. Emily Hampshire (Schitt’s Creek) stars as an oil company rep alongside Iain Glen (Game Of Thrones), Martin Compston (Line Of Duty) and Mark Bonnar (Catastrophe).

7. Next Level Chef

Find it in Apps & Games > ITVX from Wednesday 11 January

This new eight-part cooking competition will see 12 members of the public go head to head in what’s billed as “the toughest and most epic cooking contest on TV”. Contestants’ culinary creativity, agility and expertise will be tested as they move through three distinct kitchen spaces over three floors in a purpose-built studio – from a state-of-the-art kitchen to a gloomy basement stocked only with scraps. If they can impress Gordon Ramsay and fellow judges Paul Ainsworth and Nyesha Arrington, they’ll win £100,000 and a year’s mentorship with Ramsay himself.

8. Deep Fake – Neighbour Wars

Find it in Apps & Games > ITVX from Thursday 12 January

In 2022, BBC One explored the subject of deepfake technology with its political drama The Capture. For an infinitely more light-hearted take on the topic, turn to ITVX’s Deep Fake – Neighbour Wars, billed as the “world’s first longform narrative show [bringing] comedy and AI technology together”. Using deepfake tech, top UK impressionists will impersonate super-famous celebrities and tackle silly neighbour disputes along the way. Surreal stuff.

9. The Reunion

Find it in Apps & Games > ITVX from Thursday 12 January

Set on the French Riviera, this six-part series is adapted from Guillaume Musso’s 2018 novel (published under the same English title, although its original name is La Jeune Fille Et La Nuit), which has sold more than two million copies worldwide. Ioan Gruffudd (Liar), Ivanna Sakhno (The Spy Who Dumped Me) and Grégory Fitoussi (Mr Selfridge) lead the cast as three former friends who reconnect at their high school reunion. Despite losing touch years previously, they’re bound together by a tragic secret involving a long-missing girl. 

10. That ’90s Show

Find it in Apps & Games > Netflix from Thursday 19 January

A spin-off from – you guessed it – That ’70s Show, this upcoming sitcom is set slap-bang in the mid-1990s. Fifteen years after the events of That ’70s Show concluded, Eric Forman and Donna Pinciotti’s teenage daughter Leia is spending the summer with her grandparents in Wisconsin. Watch out for Topher Grace and Laura Prepon, reprising their roles as Eric and Donna.

11. Lockwood & Co

Find it in Apps & Games > Netflix from Friday 27 January

What would happen if London was riddled with ghosts? Corporate agencies would spring up to deal with them, of course – for a fee. That’s what sets Lockwood & Co apart. A small ghost-hunting start-up run by two teenage boys and a girl with extraordinary psychic abilities, their work is unencumbered by financial motives or adult supervision. This new supernatural series is based on Jonathan Stroud’s book series of the same name.

12. Alex Jones: Making Babies

Starts on W HD (CH 125) on Thursday 5 January

In this new reality series, The One Show host Alex Jones – who has spoken publicly about her own struggle to get pregnant – trains as an assistant at one of the UK’s leading fertility clinics. Filmed across several months, the show will follow Jones as she immerses herself in helping to create new life and provide hands-on support to couples trying to have a baby.

13. The Family Pile

Starts on ITV1 HD (CH 113/103) in January

Packing up a parent’s home after they die is a life milestone rarely explored on TV. Amanda Abbington (Sherlock), Clare Calbraith (Vera), Claire Keelan (The Trip) and Alexandra Mardell (Coronation Street) star in this new six-part comedy as sisters who have to sell the family home after losing their parents. Amid the grief and admin, their messy lives must go on.

14. Tony Hancock – Very Nearly An Armful

Starts on GOLD HD (CH 124) on Saturday 14 January

The English comedian and actor Tony Hancock, who died in 1968, is the subject of this new retrospective documentary fronted by stand-up and Hancock superfan Jack Dee. With exclusive access to Hancock’s archives, Dee will comb through un-broadcast TV clips, letters, photos and more to shine a spotlight on his hero’s extraordinary life.

15. Maternal

Starts on ITV1 HD (CH 113/103) in January

Parminder Nagra got used to wearing scrubs while starring in ER for six years, and now she’s donning them again in this new medical drama set in the NHS. Co-starring Lara Pulver (The Split) and Lisa McGrillis (Avoidance), the six-part series follows three doctors as they return to post-pandemic frontline medicine after maternity leave.

16. The Diplomat

Starts on Alibi HD (CH 126) in early 2023

Peaky Blinders’ Sophie Rundle stars in this new drama as Laura Simmonds, a staffer at the British Consulate in Barcelona. She works to protect UK nationals who get into trouble in the Catalan city – a job that’s “lawyer, counsellor and cop” in one. When a young British barman dies under suspicious circumstances, Laura becomes convinced that something’s amiss.

17. Billy Connolly Does… The Decades

Starts on Gold HD (CH 124) in early 2023

The Big Yin steps back in time to look at how politics, celebrity, sex, TV and football have changed for all of us in the past 50 years. The first of two documentary series from the legendary comedian will be broken down into three episodes, each covering a particular topic from work to love. The second part will follow in 2024.

18. Daisy Jones & The Six

Find it in Apps & Games > Prime Video from Friday 3 March

The glamorous and grubby world of 1970s Los Angeles is the setting for this documentary-style drama, starring Elvis Presley’s granddaughter Riley Keough (Zola, American Honey) as the titular Daisy. She’s the lead singer of a Fleetwood Mac-esque band that rises to global fame before falling catastrophically to pieces. Reese Witherspoon is one of the show’s executive producers, while Camila Morrone (Valley Girl), Sam Claflin (Enola Holmes) and Suki Waterhouse (Misbehaviour) co-star.

19. Outlander

Find it in Box Sets > LIONSGATE+ 

The sixth season of everyone’s favourite time-travelling Highlands romance sees Claire (Catriona Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan) trying to make the best of life in colonial North Carolina, having pretty much given up on making it back to Scotland. As Jamie struggles to decide whether to ally himself with the British crown or the New World, he and Claire must fight to protect those they love.

20. Everyone Else Burns

Starts on Channel 4 HD (CH 104/141) in January 2023

The Inbetweeners’ Simon Bird stars in this new six-part comedy, set in a hyper-religious Christian sect in modern-day Manchester. Bird plays a husband and father who wants to become a church elder, while his children are tempted to rebel against his dogma. The fabulous ensemble cast is rounded out by actors including Kate O’Flynn (Wanderlust), Lolly Adefope (Ghosts) and Al Roberts (Stath Lets Flats).

21. Get Millie Black

Starts on Channel 4 HD (CH 104/141) in 2023

In the UK, we have police TV dramas coming out of our ears – but strikingly few are centred around officers of colour. Written by Man Booker Prize-winning novelist Marlon James, six-part crime series Get Millie Black will go some way to rectify that. It follows police detective Millie-Jean Black (Tamara Lawrence, No Offence) as she quits Scotland Yard and returns home to Jamaica, where she pursues a missing persons case that explodes onto the international stage.

22. The Change

Starts on Channel 4 HD (CH 104/141) in 2023

This new six-part comedy-drama series is written and created by award-winning comedian, actor and writer Bridget Christie. She also stars in the show as Linda, a 50-year-old married mother of two going through an existential crisis (and the menopause). Dusting off her old Triumph motorbike after a 30-year hiatus, Linda sets off alone to the Forest of Dean – in search of an identity, a purpose, and tree she climbed as a child. The supporting cast includes Liza Tarbuck, Omid Djalili and Paul Whitehouse.

23. Queenie

Starts on Channel 4 HD (CH 104) in 2023

Candice Carty-Williams’ 2019 novel Queenie was a runaway bestseller, and an eight-part drama based on the book will come to Channel 4 this year. Casting has yet to be announced, so we don’t yet know who’ll play 25-year-old south Londoner Queenie Jenkins, a Black journalist, “catastrophist [and] occasional mess” trying to establish herself in the white, middle-class media world (while recovering from a big breakup). We do know that with Carty-Williams herself at the helm, it should be brilliant.

24. Champion 

Starts on BBC One HD (CH 101) in 2023

Queenie isn’t the only telly project Carty-Williams has in the works for 2023. Champion, her TV writing debut, follows a UK rap sensation who leaves prison to find that his younger sister has been signed to his biggest rival’s record label. “Champion is a celebration of Black music and of a Black family, however fragmented that family might be, and I can’t wait for the world to see their story,” said Carty-Williams. Watch out for singer-songwriter Ray BLK in her acting debut.

25. Dance School

Starts on Channel 4 HD (CH 104/141) in 2023

If you loved Rocks, Theresa Ikoko’s moving coming-of-age film from 2019, you’ll want to keep an eye out for this new drama series. Created by Ikoko and Lisa Holdsworth (Discovery Of Witches, Call The Midwife), Dance School follows an eclectic group of dance students in inner-city Leeds as they navigate the pressures of teenage life, with their stories brought viscerally to life through choreography.

26. Entitled

Starts on Channel 4 HD (CH 104/141) in 2023

Brett Gelman has carved out a bit of a niche for himself playing socially awkward men with, ah, varying degrees of likeability: think conspiracy theorist Murray Bauman in Stranger Things and creepy brother-in-law Martin in Fleabag. In this new comedy series, he’ll star as an American widower who visits his late wife’s estranged family in their crumbling English mansion, where they compete for his affections and his newly inherited fortune.

27. The Gathering

Starts on Channel 4 HD (CH 104) in 2023

This new six-part drama is produced by the award-winning team behind Line Of Duty and Vigil, so you know it’s going to be good. Set on Merseyside, it centres around a violent attack on a teenage girl during a rave on a tidal islet. Any one of a disparate group of teenagers could have committed the crime – but their parents are all equally suspicious.

28. I.D.

Starts on Channel 4 HD (CH 104) in 2023

What would you do if you saw your neighbour taking pictures of you? That question is at the heart of this gripping mystery thriller series. But it’s complicated by the fact that central character Emily – the one being photographed – is deaf. Per Channel 4’s official synopsis, “I.D. is a love letter to being deaf” that sees Emily “explore what she might have done to warrant this unwanted attention, while simultaneously beginning a dance with a stranger that is as exhilarating as it is dangerous.” I.D. is still a working title, so it might be called something different by the time it hits our screens.

29. A Town Called Malice  

Starts on Sky Max/HD (CH 122/121) in 2023 

It’s impossible to read that title without The Jam’s hit single popping into your head. Set on the Costa del Sol in the early 80s, this new series is powered by the sounds of that decade. It revolves around an English crime family called the Lords, who flee to Spain amid a high-profile murder case. Martha Plimpton (Raising Hope) and Jason Flemyng (Military Wives) star.

30. Gen V

Find it in Apps & Games > Prime Video in 2023

The Boys has been one of the breakout hits for Prime Video, and we can’t wait to dive into a fourth season after that season 3 ending. But following its entry into the world of animation with Diabolical, we’re now getting a proper live-action spin-off set in the world of The Boys. We’re at America’s only college exclusively for young adult superheroes (run by Vought International, of course), so expect the usual gore coupled with hormonal teens. Jaz Sinclair, Chance Perdomo and Lizzie Broadway star. Think Sex Education, but without the education.

31. Nolly 

Starts on ITV1/HD (CH 113/103) in February 2023

The soap opera Crossroads ran for 24 years on ITV, attracting 15 million viewers at its peak. At the centre of the show was Meg, the motel’s wealthy owner, played by the hugely popular Noele Gordon – but she was unceremoniously sacked from the show in 1981 owing to behind-the-scenes wranglings. TV titan Russell T Davies (Doctor Who, It’s A Sin) jumped at the chance to tell Gordon’s story, which ITV calls a “bold exploration of how the establishment turns on women who refuse to play by the rules” – and if Davies’ involvement wasn’t exciting enough, Helena Bonham Carter plays the lady herself.

32. Safe Space

Starts on Sky Comedy/HD (CH 135/123) in 2023

Greg Davies stars in this comedy series as Michael, a small-time psychotherapist whose job gets much more interesting when he takes on a new client: his local MP, a rising political star. What the MP doesn’t know is that Michael’s gentle persona hides a darker truth. The secrets shared in his consulting room may not stay there... According to Sky, Safe Space is “a tale of control, power and how idiotic it makes us”.

33. Six Four

Find it in Apps & Games > ITVX later in 2023

This four-part drama is set in Glasgow, where police officer Chris O’Neill’s (Kevin McKidd, Grey’s Anatomy) teenage daughter has gone missing. When a journalist approaches Chris with revelations about police corruption and the unsolved disappearance of another local girl, he’s thrown into disarray – while his wife Michelle (Vinette Robinson, The A Word) uses her skills as a former undercover officer to try to trace their daughter.

34. Cheat

Find it in Apps & Games > Netflix later in 2023

It’s hard not to love Danny Dyer: actor, presenter, writer of the best tweet of all time (“If the body is a temple... mine’s a [chuffing] windowless shed”). In 2023, he’ll be turning his hand to presenting Netflix’s first ever UK quiz show alongside comedian Ellie Taylor. In a set-up that “rewards both brains and blaggers”, contestants who don’t know an answer can try to cheat their way to the top of the scoreboard in the hope of winning £50,000.

35. Wilderness

Find it in Apps & Games > Prime Video later in 2023

Doctor Who’s Jenna Coleman stars in this new thriller as Liv, who embarks on a road trip with her husband in an attempt to save their crumbling marriage. “What Liv hasn't told her husband is that she has set him three challenges on their trip – three opportunities to prove he’s really sorry and worthy of her forgiveness,” reads the blurb of BE Jones’ novel Wilderness, on which the series is based. “If he fails? Well, it's dangerous out there. There are so many ways to die in the wilderness; accidents happen all the time.” Sounds… ominous.

36. Big Brother

Starts on ITV2/HD (CH 115/176) in 2023

OK, not technically a new show, but we’re treating it as one – because this is seriously exciting. Big Brother might have lost its shine a bit by the time it was pulled from the air in 2018, but after a five-year breather, we’re ready for its return. It’ll be on ITV2 this time around; details are still thin on the ground, but rest assured, we’ll be watching.

37. Great Expectations

Starts on BBC One HD (CH 101) in 2023

A lavish Dickens adaptation starring Oscar winner Olivia Colman in creepy mode? Yes, please. This new retelling of Great Expectations is due to land on the BBC next year, with Colman (The Favourite) as Miss Havisham and Dunkirk star Fionn Whitehead as Pip. Even better, the six-part limited series has been created by Steven Knight (the genius behind Peaky Blinders and SAS: Rogue Heroes) and executive produced by a team including Ridley Scott and Tom Hardy. Expect good things.

38. Shuggie Bain   

Starts on BBC One HD (CH 101) in 2023

Scottish author Douglas Stuart’s Booker Prize-winning novel is getting the TV treatment. Set in 1980s Glasgow, it’ll tell the story of a young gay man’s relationship with his alcoholic mother. “I’m thrilled to bring the Bain family to the screen and the opportunity to expand on my novel and to bring new threads to the story, exploring hardships and struggles as well as the compassion, humour and resilience that is so central to the Scottish spirit,” said Stuart.

39. Ten Pound Poms

Starts on BBC One HD (CH 101) in 2023

After the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of Britons migrated Down Under – tempted by the Australian government’s “ten pound pom” scheme, where a ticket to a sun-soaked new life could be bought for just £10. This new drama tracks a group of people as they leave dreary post-war Britain in 1956, including a young nurse trying to rewrite her past (Michelle Keegan, Our Girl) and a couple struggling to adapt to life as immigrants, Fresh Meat’s Faye Marsay and Trigger Point’s Warren Brown.

40. Best Interests

Starts on BBC One HD (CH 101) in 2023

From Dead Boss to Catastrophe to Motherland, Sharon Horgan’s projects are usually full of dark, sharp humour. But nothing sounds funny about Best Interests, a new drama from BAFTA-winning writer Jack Thorne (His Dark Materials). Horgan and Michael Sheen play a couple whose young daughter has a life-threatening condition. “The doctors believe it is in [their daughter’s] best interests to be allowed to die, but her loving family disagree,” reads the BBC’s official summary. “And so begins a fight that will take them through every stage of a legal process, as they struggle to contemplate this huge decision.”

41. The Gold

Starts on BBC One HD (CH 101) in 2023

In November 1983, six armed men broke into the Brink’s-Mat security depot near Heathrow Airport and inadvertently stumbled across gold bullion worth £26 million. Per the BBC: “The disposal of the bullion caused the birth of large-scale international money laundering, provided the dirty money that helped fuel the London Docklands property boom, united blue- and white-collar criminals and left controversy and murder in its wake.” This drama about the so-called “crime of the century” is directed by Aneil Karia, who along with Riz Ahmed made the Oscar-winning short The Long Goodbye, and stars Dominic Cooper (Mamma Mia!) and Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey).

42. Wolf

Starts BBC One HD (CH 101) in 2023

Ukweli Roach (The Midwich Cuckoos) will star as DI Jack Caffery in this six-part drama, filmed in Wales and adapted from Mo Hayder’s acclaimed crime novels. While Jack obsesses over the neighbour he believes murdered his brother in the 1990s, a wealthy family are being terrorised by a psychopath in rural Monmouthshire. “When the two narratives collide, it’s a thrilling, nail-biting and deeply disturbing race against time,” according to the BBC. Sacha Dhawan (Doctor Who) and Juliet Stevenson (Professor T) also appear. 

43. Rain Dogs

Find it in Apps & Games > BBC iPlayer in 2023

Co-produced by the BBC and HBO, made by the production company behind Killing Eve and written by exciting new writer Cash Carraway, author of bestselling book Skint Estate: Notes From The Poverty Line, this should be on everyone’s watchlist in 2023. Featuring Daisy May Cooper (This Country) in the lead role, it’s a story about love and friendship, set against a backdrop of poverty and prejudice. We can’t wait.

44. Bodies

Find it in Apps & Games > Netflix later in 2023

Collectively, Stephen Graham (Peaky Blinders, Help, Time), Shira Haas (Unorthodox) and Jacob Fortune-Lloyd (The Queen’s Gambit) have appeared in some of the most impressive TV dramas of recent years. So we’re very excited to see them come together in Bodies, a time-hopping Netflix original about four London detectives exploring the same murder – across four different generations. West End star Kyle Soller rounds out the lead cast.

45. A Man In Full

Find it in Apps & Games > Netflix later in 2023

David E Kelley – the creator of major US shows including Ally McBeal, Boston Legal, Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers – is the man behind this Tom Wolfe novel adaptation. Directed by Regina King (One Night In Miami…), the series stars Jeff Daniels (Speed) as an Atlanta real estate mogul facing bankruptcy and fighting to defend his empire from business rivals. The glittery cast also includes Diane Lane (Let Him Go), William Jackson Harper (Love Life) and Lucy Liu (Elementary), who first rose to fame with a role in Kelley’s Ally McBeal.

46. Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story

Find it in Apps & Games > Netflix later in 2023

In Netflix hit Bridgerton, the character of Queen Charlotte (Golda Rosheuvel) was inspired by persistent rumours that the real Regency royal had African ancestry. In the Bridgerton universe, Queen Charlotte’s heritage was known and accepted, marking a turning point in the integration of people of colour into the aristocracy. This new spin-off series follows a young Queen Charlotte (India Amarteifio, Sex Education) as she rises “to prominence and power” and falls in love with King George.

47. Fifteen-Love

Find it in Apps & Games > Prime Video later in 2023

According to Fifteen-Love’s creator Hania Elkington, modern female athletes are making clear “the pressures and realities of being at the top of your game” in a way never seen before. Stars such as Simone Biles, Naomi Osaka and Emma Raducanu helped inspire this upcoming drama, produced by the team behind Line Of Duty and Vigil. It follows a young tennis prodigy (Ella Lily Hyland) who goes public with serious allegations against her former coach (Aidan Turner, Poldark).

48. The Power

Find it in Apps & Games > Prime Video later in 2023

Naomi Alderman’s bestselling 2016 novel The Power is set in a world where women develop the ability to release electrical jolts from their fingers – thus becoming the dominant sex. In 2023, the first season of a major small-screen series will drop on Prime Video, adapted by an all-female writing team. The cast includes Toni Collette (Knives Out), Auli’i Cravalho (Moana) and Toheeb Jimoh (Ted Lasso), with Eddie Marsan and Rob Delaney also appearing.

49. Boiling Point  

Starts on BBC One HD (CH 101) in 2023

Loved Steven Graham in Boiling Point last year? The critically acclaimed film, which was famously shot in a single take, is now getting its own spin-off series. Boiling Point the TV show will once again focus on the harsh, fast-paced reality of life in a restaurant kitchen, featuring Graham as stressed chef Andy. But this time the drama will be spread across five episodes.

50. Better

Starts on BBC One HD (CH 101) in 2023

BAFTA-nominated Leila Farzad stars in this new thriller from the studio behind This Is Going To Hurt. She plays DI Lou Slack, a respectable Leeds copper who is hiding something from her friends, family and colleagues. Years previously, she struck a corrupt deal with property developer and drugs baron Col McHugh (Broadchurch’s Andrew Buchan), which has been the secret to her success. Can Lou ever reclaim the honour and honesty she gave away?