Vera fans will need to get used to a big change of personnel for drama's new series as a host of well known faces from other big TV shows join the cast, right after two of its biggest names quit.
Just months after Vera series 12 wrapped up on ITV, with dramatic finale The Darkest Evening, details of the next run of the much loved Sunday night favourite have now been released and viewers need to brace themselves for three more feature length murder mysteries as Brenda Blethyn's famous alias DCI Stanhope gets back on the case.
Weeks after the last series of Vera ended, fans were sent reeling by the news that Kenny Doughty was leaving his role as DS Aiden Healy, after eight years of playing Vera's sidekick and then there was a further blow to viewers, when it was also revealed that Ibinabo Jack jad also decided to quit, to focus on theatre commitments.
