{"id":741876,"date":"2026-08-18T13:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/741876\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T13:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:20:11","slug":"itv-crime-drama-stars-hint-at-new-series-after-three-year-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/741876\/","title":{"rendered":"ITV crime drama stars hint at new series after three-year break"},"content":{"rendered":"

The stars of a “gritty” crime drama hailed by some fans as “better than the original” <\/a>have addressed the show’s future<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Van der Valk<\/a> returned earlier this month for a fourth series after a three-year break.<\/p>\n

Starring Marc Warren and Maimie McCoy<\/a>, it followed three more explosive homicide cases for Van der Valk’s team to solve.<\/p>\n

That stars have now revealed that the show is “set up” for a new series, hinting at its possible return.<\/p>\n

Marc shared: \u201cIt\u2019s set up for another series, if anybody gets to the end of series four, they\u2019ll want to know what series five is.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we want and what we get are two different things in life, but certainly very grateful to have done it and would love to do more,” reports the Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Van Der Valk returned with a fourth series -Credit:ITV<\/p>\n

Maimie meanwhile shared: “The thing about four is, it’s almost like it’s really found its feet and identity, and I think we have.<\/p>\n

“When we started season four, it had maybe been a year since we shot the other ones, it feels like it was naturally growing.”<\/p>\n

Talking about her close bond with her co-stars, she continued: \u201cI think as life is happening to all of us very separately, it just brings a richness to it, which I think is very hard to talk about or describe.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt infuses the show and I guess that\u2019s what should happen over time for any show, any book, it should just kind of keep\u2026 if you come to it with an energy, it should keep blossoming.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Maimie spoke of the close bond with her co-stars -Credit:ITV<\/p>\n

Marc added: \u201cWe\u2019ve been through a lot of life stuff on this show, and that\u2019s all I\u2019ll say on that, it’s very bonding, we had Covid in it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a very unusual show, it came from nowhere and suddenly we found ourselves\u2026 I remember in series three, I woke up and was like, \u2018This is incredible,\u2019 because when you\u2019re doing it, it\u2019s such a lot of work and it took me three or four seasons to really appreciate what an incredible series this was.\u201d<\/p>\n

Based on Nicolas Freeling\u2019s crime thriller novels, the show first aired in 2020 on ITV<\/a>, as a reboot of the 1970s series with Barry Foster.<\/p>\n

Van der Valk is available to watch on ITVX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The stars of a “gritty” crime drama hailed by some fans as “better than the original” have addressed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-741876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741876","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=741876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}