Crime Drama 'Grace' Renewed for a Fifth Season
ITV has confirmed that Grace, its popular crime drama based on the popular series of novels by Peter James, will officially return for a fifth season, an announcement that comes before the latest season of the show has even aired.
Viewers have yet to see Season 4 of the sleeper hit in either the U.K. or the U.S. — it is slated to come to America on BritBox when it does arrive, as previous seasons have — but the fifth season is already slated to begin production next month. Season 5 will be comprised of four feature-length installments, and while plot details are being kept under wraps ahead of the fourth season, the episodes will reportedly adapt the thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth stories in James's series: Dead If You Don't, Dead at First Sight, Need You Dead, and Find Them Dead. (There are currently 19 Grace titles and counting, with a twentieth novel in the works.)
The series stars John Simm (Doctor Who) as the troubled, unyielding DS Roy Grace, a detective who has given his life to his job. Richie Campbell (Top Boy) also stars as Grace's partner, DS Glenn Branson. Other cast members who will be reprising their roles for the show's fifth season are Zoë Tapper (Liar) as Cleo Morey, Laura Elphinstone (Dalgliesh) as DS Bella Moy, Brad Morrison (Outlander) as DC Nick Nicholl, and Sam Hoare (Miss Scarlet & The Duke) as ACC Cassian Pewe.
