First look images from the hotly anticipated third series of the BAFTA and RTS award-winning Belfast-based drama, Blue Lights, have been released.<\/p>\n
Produced by Two Cities Television and co-produced by Gallagher Films for BBC iPlayer and BBC One, the thrilling, critically acclaimed show stars Si\u00e2n Brooke (Grace), Martin McCann (Stevie), Katherine Devlin (Annie), Nathan Braniff (Tommy), Joanne Crawford (Helen), Andi Osho (Sandra), Frank Blake (Shane), Abigail McGibbon, (Tina) Dearbh\u00e1ile McKinney (Aisling) and Andrea Irvine (Nicola).<\/p>\n
The cast are joined this year by Cathy Tyson (Boiling Point, Dune: Prophecy) who plays private members club owner, Dana Morgan and Michael Smiley (Bad Sisters, Censor) as new intelligence officer Paul \u2018Colly\u2019 Collins.<\/p>\n
Two years into their jobs as response officers Grace, Annie and Tommy are accustomed to life under the blue lights. But their work will take them into a sinister world hidden behind the veneer of middle-class life, the world of the accountants and lawyers who facilitate organised crime. <\/p>\n
The old political and criminal order has gone and a new global gang rule Belfast, bringing danger closer to home for our officers than ever before.<\/p>\n
Blue Lights series two averaged 5.6M viewers across the series, while episode one\u2019s 7M made it the BBC\u2019s fourth biggest drama launch last year. In Northern Ireland, it was the biggest drama across the whole market (broadcasters and streamers), across 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First look images from the hotly anticipated third series of the BAFTA and RTS award-winning Belfast-based drama, Blue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-8763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}