BritBox Sets 'Vera' Season 13 for the End of February
It only took Vera Season 13's finale being out on ITV a few days for BritBox to announce the season's forthcoming arrival in America. The beloved mystery series, now confirmed to be heading into its fourteenth season, will arrive on the streaming service at the end of February 2024. For Vera fans, this season brings a highly anticipated reunion as the series brings back a longtime favorite character from the show's first four seasons, DS Joe Ashworth (David Leon), who has been promoted to DI in the decade he's been away.
Vera has been through many cast members since it debuted in 2011 and launched several careers. Original cast member Wunmi Mosaku started as DC Holly Lawson in the first two seasons and now stars in Loki; Cush Jumbo went from DC Bethany Whelan in Season 2 to The Good Wife before coming back for two more seasons and then departing again for The Good Fight. Kingsley Ben-Adir played Dr. Marcus Sumner for three seasons, starting in Season 4, left to star in Peaky Blinders before coming back for Season 8; now he too is in the Marvel Universe and is set to star as Bob Marley in an Oscar-bait biopic.
David Leon has also found success during his time away from Vera, including the miniseries Gold Digger, and as the creator and writer of the miniseries Too Good to be True, which stars Allen Leech (Downton Abbey) and Sara Powell (Unforgotten). (For the curious, that miniseries is in post-production and expected in 2025.) Leon now makes his long-awaited return to the show, but a lot has changed in a decade for both Ashworth and Standhope.
