{"id":595967,"date":"2026-08-17T11:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T11:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/595967\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T11:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T11:50:09","slug":"vigil-season-3-teaser-trailer-drops-ahead-of-bbc-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/595967\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Vigil’ Season 3 Teaser Trailer Drops Ahead Of BBC Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tHere\u2019s your first look at Suranne Jones<\/a> and Rose Leslie<\/a> in Season 3 of BBC<\/a> police drama Vigil<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tA teaser shows the pair trekking across a frozen tundra, long-range rifle strapped to their backs, as their latest high-stakes investigation takes them to a remote Arctic research station. \u201cIn the Arctic, you don\u2019t understand what\u2019s coming,\u201d a foreboding voiceover says in the words spoken in the 25-second trailer.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Season 3 of the International Emmy-winning series, DCI Amy Silva (Jones) and DI Kirsten Longacre (Leslie) investigate why a member of a covert British special forces mission has been shot dead in the research station.<\/p>\n

\n\tThey need to both catch the killer and defuse a potential international confrontation, as different nations compete for control of the Arctic and its resources in the changing polar climate.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe first two episodes will drop on Sunday, August 30 in the UK, with eps then running on Sunday and Monday nights at 9pm on BBC One.<\/p>\n

\n\tSeason 3 cast includes\u00a0Dominic Mafham, reprising his role as Sir Ian Downing, and new cast such as\u00a0Jeppe Beck Laursen\u00a0(The Last Kingdom)\u00a0as Henrick Becken, Svalbard\u2019s Chief of Police;\u00a0Naomi Yang (Under Salt Marsh) Shen Jia, a microbiologist;\u00a0Tornike Gogrichiani\u00a0(Extraction 2)\u00a0as Fyodor, a Russian colonel;\u00a0Steven Miller\u00a0(Dept. Q) and\u00a0Benjamin Wainwright(Maigret) as Special Boat Service operators;\u00a0Danusia Samal\u00a0(Red Eye)\u00a0as Jasmine Kelly, who works alongside Downing;\u00a0Eric\u00a0Godon\u00a0(In Bruges) as Mayor Korotayev; and\u00a0Amy Manson\u00a0(Rebus) as Lorna McCallister, a geologist.\u00a0Gary Lewis reprises his role as DSU Robertson, who continues to work closely with Amy and Kirsten.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe six-part season comes from World Productions<\/a> in association with its parent company, ITV Studios. Tom Edge\u00a0is writer and creator, with additional writing coming from\u00a0Tom Mair\u00a0and\u00a0Eve Hedderwick Turner. The producer is\u00a0Marcus Wilson, associate producer is\u00a0George Aza-Selinger and executive producers are\u00a0Jake Lushington\u00a0for World,\u00a0Gaynor Holmes\u00a0for the BBC and Edge.\u00a0Stephanie Fyfe\u00a0is the commissioning executive for the BBC, and the directors are\u00a0Gareth Bryn and Faye Gilbert. ITV Studios handles the international distribution.<\/p>\n

\n\tVigil\u00a0Season 1, in which Jones\u2019 Silva was enlisted to solve a murder on a navy submarine in Scottish waters, was BAFTA-nominated and won the International Emmy for Best Drama Series in 2021. Season 2, from 2023, focused on a deadly drone attack, launched to nearly nine million viewers and was in the BBC\u2019s top-three most-watched dramas of the year. In the U.S., both seasons stream on Peacock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s your first look at Suranne Jones and Rose Leslie in Season 3 of BBC police drama Vigil.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1578,93,61,60,155392,252366,282,201409,83779],"class_list":["post-595967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bbc","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-rose-leslie","tag-suranne-jones","tag-tv","tag-vigil","tag-world-productions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}