Following the recent teary departure of popular Reverend Will Davenport, Grantchester season 9 welcomes a handsome newcomer this week as he roars into the village in a bright red Triumph convertible. But he gets off to a rather rocky - or should that be Rocky? - start with the locals…
"For my first day filming on set, I felt like the new kid at school and my first scene was to punch Robson Green in the face," says actor Rishi Nair - best known for playing Hollyoaks’ Sami Maalik - who takes up the cassock and dog collar worn by departing Tom Brittney’s Will, as the ITV1 drama’s new crime-fighting clergyman, Alphy Kotteram.
