'Unforgotten' Season 6 Celebrates the Start of Filming with First Photos

Unforgotten's transfer of power from Nicola Walker to Sinead Keenan was a bit of a nail-biter for the production and fans alike. The series, one of the most popular mysteries in the PBS lineup and on ITV, seemed to hinge on Walker's charisma and her chemistry with co-lead Sanjeev Bhaskar as her partner-in-crime solving, Sunny Khan. However, the move turned out to be a win-win for everyone: Walker's new show, Annika, was a smash hit, and Unforgotten's ratings soared as viewers tuned in to see how Sunny handled his new boss, Keenan's Jesse James, leading iTV to renew the series months before it aired on PBS.

That head start renewing the show gave Unforgotten's writer, Chris Lang, a headstart on penning scripts, allowing preproduction to get underway quickly. The result is that despite there usually being an eighteen-month gap between seasons here in the States, filming for the next season is already underway in the U.K., less than six months after Season 5's conclusion. The whole cast, including Keenan and Bhaskar, attended the table read, with ITV releasing images from it on March 12, 2024, to mark the occasion.

In the press release, Lang said: "I'm incredibly excited to be about to start filming the sixth series of Unforgotten, with a story that has been gestating for nearly eight years, since 23rd June 2016, when our country seemed to fracture in two. The U.K., and indeed the world, has today never seemed more divided, and series six attempts to try and understand how we got to where we are now and, perhaps more importantly, where we can go from here."