Many ITV viewers were left with a few issues as Grace returned to ITV last Sunday. Firstly, what happened in the first series and why was there only ever one episode shown?
It was just over a year ago that former star of The Lakes and Life On Mars, John Simm, made his debut in the role of new on-screen alias Detective Superintendent Roy Grace and on Sunday night, after a few weeks of teaser adverts, he is back to lead the Grace cast as the crime drama returns for a new series. When quizzed on how he felt about taking a role which he could end up keeping for years, depending on the show's success, John said: "In this day and age, we should be thankful to be working, and when this role came to me straight after the pandemic, I was just so keen to work.
"Maybe if I was younger, it might have been a thing – back then, I didn't want to hang around projects for too long because I wanted to do different stuff, but I've been doing this job for 30 odd years. I've played loads of different characters, and I'm sure there'll be loads more coming up, I'll do other things as well."
