Acorn TV Confirms 'Signora Volpe' Will Return for Season 3

Riding the current high of two record-breaking series premiering back-to-back in Art Detectives and Irish Blood, Acorn TV announced it will bring back one of the shows that hasn't yet found an audience, in hopes that the newcomers will start tuning in. Signora Volpe, the lush Italian-set odd-couple detective series starring Silent Witness' Emilia Fox, is back in production for Season 3, as Fox's character, former MI-6 agent Sylvia Fox (no relation!), gets back to her life after Season 2's finale saw her abducted and nearly killed by thugs working for her ex-husband.

Much like in the world of Law and Order, in the world of television mysteries, the cases are solved by two separate yet equally important types of shows. There are thrillers, which focus more on investigating the crime than the people solving it; and there are cozy crime series, where the relationships between the characters are just as meaningful as the mysteries they're solving, and the creation (and maintaining) of a found family drawn together by the events. 

Acorn TV is having a smashing success in 2025 with the latter type of show; however, Signora Volpe is a little different. While it is a cozy crime series, the show takes a different approach to the emotional lives of the characters, asking what happens when the protagonist leaves that found family to connect with her real one. Sylvia has spent her life in MI-6, her move to Italy is her trying to reconnect with her blood relations, specifically her sister. 

Here's the season 3 synopsis:

Returning with three 90-minute episodes, Season 3 will see Sylvia investigating the murder of the owner of a local winery, and probing the mystery of a beautiful young man found dead in the bed of a power couple who claim never to have seen him before. Meanwhile, Sylvia's relationship with Carabinieri captain Giovanni Riva deepens, but the finalization of Riva's divorce and his desire to set down roots in Umbria threaten Sylvia's sense of independence. In the final episode, Sylvia experiences an emotional crisis as someone close to her suffers a violent death, and Adam returns, injured and in danger, to ask for Sylvia’s help, and test her loyalties to the limit. 

Fox returns as Sylvia Fox, joined by the show's core ensemble, including Tara Fitzgerald (Belgravia) as Sylvia’s sister, Isabel Vitale; Matteo Carlomagno (Viola) as her husband, Matteo Vitale; Imma Piro (Unthinkably Good Things) as Matteo's mother, Antonella Vitale; and Giovanni Cirfiera (Ford v Ferrari) as Sylvia's love interest, Giovanni Riva. Season 2 additions returning for another round include Elena Di Cioccio (Kostas) as Brigadier Roberta Barzini and Marianne Leoni (The Price of Family) as Raffaella Tasso.

Season 3 will also bring back guest stars Jamie Bamber (Beyond Paradise), who returns as Sylvia's ex-husband, Adam Haines, and Buffy Davis (Doc Martin), who will return as Miriam Cavendish. 

Series creators Rachel Cuperman and Sally Griffiths (Midsomer Murders) penned all episodes, with director David Evans (Downton Abbey) directing all episodes of the new season; Matthew Bird produces. Cuperman, Griffiths, and Fox all executive produce the series alongside Marc Samuelson, Josie Law & Robert Cheek for Route 24; Catherine Mackin & Bea Tammer for Acorn Media Enterprises; Simon Cox for Banijay Rights, and Cristina Giubbetti for Cattleya.

Signora Volpe Season 3 is currently filming in the Lazio and Umbria regions of Italy, and is expected to be released in 2026. Seasons 1 and 2 are streaming on Acorn TV.