A series of season 3 first-look stills have now been released after wrapping up filming earlier this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n What to Read Next<\/p>\n The next set of episodes follow response officers Grace (Si\u00e2n Brooke), Annie (Katherine Devlin) and Tommy (Nathan Braniff) two years into the job, now “accustomed to life under the blue lights”.<\/p>\n “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,” the synopsis adds.<\/p>\n BBC<\/p>\n BBC<\/p>\n Related: Best streaming services<\/a><\/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 New cast additions<\/a> for the next season include Boiling Point’s Cathy Tyson as Dana Morgan, a private members club owner, and Bad Sisters’ Michael Smiley as Paul ‘Colly’ Collins, a new intelligence officer.<\/p>\n BBC<\/p>\n BBC<\/p>\n Earlier this year, Brooke suggested that fans won’t be disappointed by season 3, teasing to Radio Times<\/a>: “The writing I think on this one, it just blows it out the water \u2013 I don’t know how these guys get better and better, but they do.”<\/p>\n Praising the “finely crafted” characters, she added: “There’s a lot of care that’s gone into making them, and they’re very individual and so people have related to them. They want to know what happens, where the story ends.”<\/p>\n Blue Lights airs on BBC One and is available to stream on iPlayer.<\/p>\n Digital Spy’s new print issue is here! Buy Oasis – Live in ’25<\/a> in newsagents or online<\/a>, now priced at just \u00a38.99. Sam is a freelance reporter and sub-editor who has a particular interest in movies<\/a>, TV<\/a> and music. After completing a journalism Masters at City University, London, Sam joined Digital Spy as a reporter, and has also freelanced for publications such as NME<\/a> and Screen International<\/a>. \u00a0Sam, who also has a degree in Film, can wax lyrical about everything from Lord of the Rings<\/a> to Love Is Blind<\/a>, and is equally in his element crossing every ‘t’ and dotting every ‘i’ as a sub-editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Returning Belfast-set crime series Blue Lights has dropped a first look at its new season. The “thrilling” BBC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[379,54107,381,96,1156,54106,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-112301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-content-type-news","9":"tag-contentid-271428c5-0118-4f67-b867-b492e44c7ceb","10":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-locale-gb","13":"tag-shorttitle-thrilling-returning-crime-drama-gets-first-look","14":"tag-tv","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"sian](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/sian-brooke-martin-mccann-blue-lights-season-3-68b801e7791ab.jpg\" "\\"Sian")
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