Grace

Grace aired across two seasons. John Simm is back to play the lead character, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, with the programme having been hailed the " ...

DS Bella Moy - Laura Elphinstone DS Norman Potting - Craig Parkinson DS Glenn Branson - Richie Campbell DS Roy Grace - John Simm This series will consist of three 120 minute episodes. The detective will also be shaken by a recent sighting of his long-missing wife Sandy.

Grace is back on ITV for a new series on Sunday, March 19, with John Simm once again leading the cast.

[Series 2 of Grace](https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/tv/what-happened-grace-itv-series-23771166) aired on [ ITV](https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/all-about/itv) last year and was just as grisly as the first, with its final episode concerned with the discovery of a body dredged up from the sea, with both of the person's eyes missing. Investigations led to the discovery of an operation underway on the south coast, in which migrants were being promised a better life if they passed compulsory medical tests. [ Grace](https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/tv/what-happened-grace-itv-series-23771166), the crime drama adapted from Peter James' hit novels, made its debut with former Life on Mars and The Lakes actor John Simm in the lead role of famous fictional detective Roy Grace. If you can't see the form below, click [Dancing on Ice result sees Nile Wilson win after three way tie on final leaderboard](https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/tv/nile-dancing-on-ice-winner-26455149) [*Denise Welch has A-list guests including Tom Cruise in hysterics at Michael Caine's birthday party](https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/showbiz-news/denise-welch-michael-caine-birthday-26478849) [*ITV's Raoul Moat drama produced by same team behind hit shows Line of Duty, Bodyguard and Vigil](https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/tv/hunt-for-raoul-moat-itv-26479326) [*Win tickets for a tour of Emmerdale's famous set](https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/win-pair-tickets-famous-emmerdale-26208794) Grace's first ever episode left viewers mightily unnerved as it centered on the disappearance of a man on his stag do who, unbeknown to his loved ones, ended being buried alive by his so called mates in a sick prank that then took a sinister turn when, a straw put in a hole for him to be use as a breathing tube, was pulled out of the ground by an unknown assailant.

The third series of the popular ITV crime drama Grace is set to air on March 19 and will once again star Doctor Who actors John Simm and The Bill's Richie ...

Who she is and whether the two of them are still together, is not known. Richie is incredibly private about his personal life and has not disclosed much information in previous interviews. We’ve created the world and it’s now where do you want to go with these characters." However, Richie has admitted he would love a drastic change for his character Glenn. The R&B fan admitted he wasn't really into computer games despite having worked on a number of them such as Stories Untold and Brink. The first episode begins with a bombshell for DS Glenn Branson who finds out his wife has been cheating on him while protagonist DSI Roy Grace is still reeling following a possible sighting of his missing wife. He said: "I’ve never been a gamer per se. Based on Peter James' bestselling novels, which are much loved by the Duchess of Cornwall, the highly-anticipated new series will be broadcast at 8pm on March 19. Some fans might also recognise his voice from video games such as Alien: Isolation and Nioh. Filming for a fourth series will start in April based on the books Dead Mans Time, Want You Dead, You Are Dead and Love You Dead. I was a fiend for Championship Football Manager PC when I was younger, and I’ve recently got it on the tablet so that’s my little vice at the minute. The third series of the popular ITV crime drama Grace is set to air on March 19 and will once again star Doctor Who actors John Simm and The Bill's Richie Campbell.

The new series of Grace will be launching on ITV with an adaptation of Peter James' novel Dead Like You.

The new outing consists of three two-hour films, which will be airing weekly. Again based on the novels by best-selling author Peter James, season three will be kicking off tonight on ITV1 and ITVX at 8pm with a compelling two-hour film. Who is in the cast of Grace season 3, episode 1? Sam Hoare will be stepping in as senior officer Cassian Pewe, who replaces James D’Arcy in the role, and will be serving as Grace’s new boss. Here’s a look at the cast of the opening instalment of Grace season three. Grace season 3 episode 1 cast: Who is in the cast of Dead Like You?

Detective drama Grace is back on ITV with John Simm as the titular cop in the Peter James adaptation.

For more showbiz and television stories get our newsletter [here](https://www.walesonline.co.uk/newsletter-preference-centre/). The South Downs outside the town have also been used in previous series of Grace for some gloomy scenes. As the show is set in Brighton, Grace is filmed around that area of Sussex. You can catch up with both new and previous episodes of Grace on ITVX. Peter James' character lives and breathes the Sussex seaside village and some of the scenes include the very recognisable pier. More on the cast,

Grace spoilers follow. Detective Roy Grace is back patrolling the mean streets of Brighton in the third series of Grace, the ITV crime drama based on the ...

And of course, they also feature developments in the story of Roy’s missing wife Sandy. The good news is that Grace was renewed for a fourth series by ITV in January this year. He is appalled by the things that happen and wants to make them right.” I’m trying to keep Brighton safe and a nice place to live!” And it seems there are always plenty of those to solve when he isn’t sorting out his complicated personal life. He can be quite intense and very serious, but you actually get to see him smile.”

ITV viewers were left complaining and advising the channel to move crime drama Grace to a later time slot as it aired 'graphic' content on horrifying rapes ...

It is abit far for 8pm," with a third commenting: "I'm always shocked that [@ITV](https://twitter.com/ITV) airs [#Grace](https://twitter.com/hashtag/Grace?src=hashtag_click) at 8pm." If you can't see the form below, click [#ITV](https://twitter.com/hashtag/ITV?src=hashtag_click) does the watershed not exist anymore?" [scene in the first episode of](https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/tv/how-many-episodes-grace-itv-23772183) [ Grace series two,](https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/tv/what-happened-grace-series-two-26509558) as viewers saw a character watching what turned out to be a snuff video of a woman sat blindfolded on a bed, before the masked person she was with brandished a knife and screams were heard. The case dragged up old memories for Grace, who recalled a very similar investigation a decade earlier, involving an criminal known as 'the Brighton prowler,' who was never caught. And it was a comment one of Grace's colleagues made about the perpetrator which raised a few eyebrows.

Grace series 3 has arrived on ITV1 - here's a full run down of who's on the cast. The hit crime drama is an adaptation of international, bestselling.

“Something about the incident is causing a deep unease in Grace – he knows he’s seen this before. Jack Pierce plays Jack Skerrit A teaser for the new series of three episodes shares: “As East Sussex police bid farewell to ACC Alison Vosper, the announcement of her replacement is not welcome news for Grace.

What makes Grace – newly returned to our Sunday night TV screens – quite so brilliant and quite so compelling is that the series creates an entirely ...

A rising music star, Gaia Lafayette, receives the opportunity of a lifetime, and the same night that she excitedly announces to her devoted fans that she and her band are headed to LA, a shocking turn of events leads Grace and Branson to believe someone may be trying to harm her. An unexpected discovery at the scene, found on the victim, soon suggests there could be far more to this particular accident than meets the eye, sparking an unsettling chain of events which leads Grace and Branson on a tense, desperate game of cat and mouse through the city of Brighton to save an innocent life before time runs out. As the attacks continue, Grace is convinced it’s the same man – and delving into the past may be the key to saving the next victim.

Viewers of the ITV drama starring John Simm said it should not have gone out pre watershed.

As the Radio Times put it: "Maybe the watershed is an outdated concept, but this used to be the timeslot of Where the Heart Is, Wild at Heart and Heartbeat... Find something else for the 8pm slot." basically, lots of mild shows with Heart in the title. @KBsquared said: "Honestly, @ITV, have you no respect for the watershed? What's happened to the watershed?" @jackyshaw said: "Do the producers of #grace really think a story about women being brutally raped with a sex toy is suitable viewing at 8pm on a Sunday evening?

John Simm's DI Roy Grace is a thoroughly decent chap, but this by-numbers crime drama lacks colour and tension.

You worry that the saintly Grace is a bit too stolid for Simm, who in his youth embodied many a zippy livewire. A subplot about Grace’s long-lost wife who’s gone missing in Germany is meant to drip-feed tension into his narrative. The only one of them having much fun is Craig Parkinson, who so shamelessly cocks an ironic eyebrow as legacy copper DS Norman Potting with his old-school ways that he seems to have sauntered in from a different script altogether. Then there was creepy Johnny (Thomas Coombes), a pathological mummy’s boy who talked inappropriately to the women in his taxi and, in his other job on a ghost train, serially groped them. Rollo (Luke Norris) was a cocksure posho who got into the habit of bullying while at public school. A lordly chief constable, he found himself under suspicion for a spree of abductions, sexual assaults and a murder, all performed in a rubber suit and some sort of gimp mask.

Aside from uneven pacing, heavy-handed clues and drab dialogue – the biggest problem was Grace's treatment of its female characters. ITV STUDIOS ITV1 GRACE ...

Was the impassioned promise from Grace about the police taking all reports of sexual assault seriously simply naive or a more calculated bit of pro-law enforcement messaging? Unfortunately, one was considerably more successful than the other: while Grace (of course) solved the case, the show itself was a clunker. Once a woman was raped, we never saw her on screen again, other than in a flashback or on CCTV, as the script got carried away with how the (mostly male) police officers saved the day. Not with the likes of Roy Grace in charge – a man depicted here as so unfailingly empathetic that it’s a wonder he wasn’t knighted at the episode’s conclusion. ITV’s latest adaptation of Peter James’s novels had DSI Roy Grace ( But that was all in the past.