The First Look at BBC Drama 'The Jetty' Sees Jenna Coleman Solving Crime In a Lakeside Town

Jenna Coleman is about to officially enter her detective era. The former Doctor Who star is hardly the first actor to bounce from traveling on cosmic adventures in the TARDIS to tackling crime in the gritty streets of London (or some other British city). Lots of them have done it, including David Tennant (Broadchurch), Peter Capaldi (Criminal Record), and Pearl Mackie (The Long Call). Now Coleman is set to join their ranks, starring in The Jetty, a crime thriller that examines sexual morality, grooming, identity, memory, and more.

The BBC has released the first batch of images from the upcoming four-part drama, giving viewers their first proper look at the series’ expansive cast and the eerie lakeside town where an arson, a missing persons cold case, and an illicit romantic triangle are intricately intertwined. In The Jetty, Coleman stars as Ember Manning, a rookie detective called in to investigate after a fire destroys a holiday home in a scenic lake town in Lancashire. But as she digs further into this unexplained event, she’ll find unexpected and potentially dark connections to everything from a podcast journalist who’s investigating a missing person’s case to an illicit love triangle involving a man in his twenties and two underage girls.

But as Ember gets closer to discovering the truth, the answers threaten to destroy her life – forcing her to re-evaluate everything she thought she knew about her past, present, and the town she’s always called home.