Happy Valley will come to an end for good on Sunday, February 5. After three seasons and a six-year hiatus the police drama starring Sarah Lancashire as Catherine Cawood, James Norton as Tommy Lee Royce and Siobhan Finneran as Clare Cartwright, will officially say goodbye to its fans.
Whatever fills the police drama's spot on BBC One at 9pm on Sunday nights has big boots to fill given the outpouring of love Happy Valley, written by Sally Wainwright, has received since it kicked off on New Year's Day. And it looks like fans of BBC drama and thrillers are in for a treat, as bosses have confirmed what will air in the 9pm slot on Sunday, February 12.
The Gold is the brand new drama attempting to fill the hole Happy Valley will no doubt leave behind. It has a star-studded cast list including Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey, Paddington 1 and 2), Jack Lowden (Small Axe: Mangrove, Slow Horses), Dominic Cooper (The Preacher, The Devil’s Double), Charlotte Spencer (The Duke, Cinderella), and Tom Cullen (Becoming Elizabeth, Black Mirror).
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BBC's The Gold has been described as a pulsating dramatisation of a true story in 1983 which saw six armed men break into the Brink's-Mat security depot near London's Heathrow Airport where they inadvertently stumbled across gold bullion worth £26m.
A synopsis for the new series reads: "On the 26th November 1983, six armed men broke into the Brink’s-Mat security depot near London’s Heathrow Airport, and inadvertently stumbled across gold bullion worth £26m. What started as 'a typical Old Kent Road armed robbery' according to detectives at the time, became a seminal event in British criminal history, remarkable not only for the scale of the theft - at the time the biggest in global history - but for its wider legacy.
"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.
"Inspired by extensive research and interviews with some of those involved in the events, The Gold is a pulsating dramatisation which takes a journey into a 1980s world awash with cheap money and loosened morals to tell this extraordinary and epic story for the first time in its entirety." For more showbiz and television stories get our newsletter here.
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