'Hidden Assets' Gearing Up For Season 3 in 2025

The Acorn TV series Hidden Assets is one of those crime shows that has flown under the radar in America, and with good reason. The Irish-Belgian RTE co-production series stands out as odd among the cozy crime drama world's offerings. There's no small village; everyone is a law enforcement professional, and the bad guys sometimes get away with it. Moreover, it focuses on a niche corner of law enforcement that most people don't realize exists: the Criminal Assets Bureau, known as Ireland's CAB. Their job is to hunt down the assets of those who commit crimes to help pay for justice; however, their cases sometimes lead them to active terrorist criminal plots in progress.

Part of the show's conceit comes from Europe being a confederate of countries whose law enforcement bureaus sometimes are forced to work together and the reality that most criminals in the U.K. and Ireland tend to stash ill-gotten gains on the far side of the Chunnel, where other country's banks are less inclined to ask questions before laundering. Seasons 1 and 2 began in Ireland and then branched out to Belgium, as the Garda's CAB tracked the goods to active cases in the Belgian Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU).

Season 1 started as a spinoff of another show in the RTE/Acorn TV portfolio, 2017's one-and-done series Acceptable Risk. It brought back supporting cast member Angeline Ball (Mr Selfridge), reprising her role as DS Emer Berry. In Season 1, Berry winds up tracking James Melnick (Charlie Carrick) to Belgium, where she teams up with CTU's Christian De Jong (Wouter Hendrickx). However, Ball exited after one season and was replaced by Nora Jane Noone (The Ipcress File) as DS Claire Wallace. Wallace's first case winds up leading to James' wife, Bibi Melnick (Simone Kirby), also operating in Belgium; Wallace then meets De Jong, and the two work to solve the case once and for all.

The good news is that Noone isn't going anywhere for Season 3, allowing the series to move away from Belgium since De Jong is no longer the show's continuity lead. Instead, Noone will find herself working in a different country altogether. Here's Season 3's synopsis:

Season 3 of Hidden Assets finds the CAB team relocated from Limerick to Dublin and soon embroiled in an investigation that unfolds simultaneously in the Basque region of Northern Spain and Dublin.

What appears to be a simple case of an Irish fund manager defrauding his clients is soon linked to a series of connected murders in Bilbao. Dogged investigative work by DS Claire Wallace and the CAB team, their Spanish liaison Lore Velasquez, and the Basque detective Sebastian Ruiz connects all these crimes to strange illnesses, until now unreported, in one of Bilbao’s most vulnerable groups.  As they follow this thread, they realise this is only the tip of an iceberg, finding that even trusted charities are not immune to the reach of white collar crime.

Noone is confirmed to return as DS Clare Wallace to lead Hidden Assets' third season. Thus far, RTE and Acorn TV have not officially revealed who will join her for the show's third season.

Like Seasons 1 and 2, Season 3 of Hidden Assets will run six one-hour installments, written by series creator Peter McKenna (Kin), with Susan Connolly, Cara Loftus, and Mary Fox & Marty Thornton. Director Kadir Ferati Balci returns to helm episodes as lead director.

Hidden Assets Season 3 is currently listed as in production. It is expected to debut in Ireland in 2025 and follow later in the year on Acorn TV.