Brenda Blethyn has admitted she ends up feeling 'emotional' when she think about the future of Vera and the prospect of walking away from the role, telling fans to 'watch this space' as they look forward to its return to screen this weekend.
It's been close to a year now since Brenda's formidable on screen alias had any new cases to solve, after ITV pulled Vera off its schedules midway through series 11, to make way for The Good Karma Hospital and the launch of Trigger Point. Viewers were left confused as to why Vera made a sudden disappearance, given there were still two episodes left.
Those two episodes will finally air over the coming weeks, with the first of those, Vital Signs, airing on ITV1 on Sunday, January 15. The feature length episode will see Brenda reunited with sidekick Kenny Doughty as their characters attempt to get to the bottom of the death of a GP, after herbody is found in a burnt out car.
