HAPPY VALLEY, SEASON 3 air date

Happy Valley, a great British Mystery Series, is set to return for Season 3 after a 5 year hiatus. It won the BAFTA for Best Drama Series in 2015. And, in case you're not aware, the valley where it takes place is anything but happy! Years have passed but Sergeant Catherine Cawood, played by Sarah Lancashire, is still a cop in the Calder Valley/Hebden Bridge area near Halifax in West Yorkshire. 

RadioTimes.com tells us that the third season has Sergeant Catherine Cawood discovering the remains of a gangland murder victim in a drained reservoir (Reservoir Noir?), and things lead her to Tommy Lee Royce (James Norton), who's been in prison since Season 1. There will also be new characters and several familiar ones. 

Release Date: UK: January 1, 2023. BBC One. 9 pm.

U.S.? Stay tuned (but hopefully not far behind the UK). I'll post as soon as I hear. Pretty sure it will be on Acorn.TV, but that's not confirmed. In the meanwhile, catch up on Happy Valley, Seasons 1 and 2. 

Happy Valley: a new Sally Wainwright Crime Drama

This sounds great. Hope we get this crime series in the U.S.  This six-part Sally Wainwright production  Happy Valley will be set in West Yorkshire.

Radio Times reports:

Sarah Lancashire (Last Tango in Halifax) will star alongside Steve Pemberton (The League of Gentlemen) and Siobhan Finneran (Downton Abbey) in Happy Valley – a new Sally Wainwright crime drama, which has begun filming in West Yorkshire.

“I’m pleased that we’re filming Happy Valley right in the heart of Calderdale in West Yorkshire,” explained Wainwright. “It’s going to be hard work, but on screen it will look stunning”.
The dark, humorous thriller will follow a police sergeant named Catherine (played by Lancashire) in rural Calderdale, who investigates after a staged kidnapping goes very, very wrong.

Sarah Lancashire said: “Happy Valley is a dark, funny, multi-layered thriller revolving around the personal and professional life of Catherine, a dedicated, experienced, hard-working copper. She is also a bereaved mother who looks after her orphaned grandchild. It’s an emotional, complex, challenging role. I’m terrified, exhausted and freezing cold but I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.”

George Costigan (Unforgiven, Calendar Girls), Joe Armstrong (The Village, Robin Hood) and James Norton (Rush, Death Comes to Pemberley) will also star in the new drama. As will Adam Long (Spike Island, Waterloo Road), Karl Davies (Emmerdale, Game of Thrones), Ramon Tikaram (Casualty, Eastenders) and Charlie Murphy (Love/Hate, The Village). 

Happy Valley will air on BBC1 in 2014.