Shakespeare & Hathaway: Season 5 news!

Hot off the presses! The BBC website announced today that Season Five of Shakespeare & Hathaway has started filming with Jo Joyner, Mark Benton & Patrick Walshe McBride. The new series, produced by BBC Studios Drama Productions in Birmingham, is a co-commission by BBC Content and UKTV, and will premiere exclusively on UKTV’s specialist crime drama channel, Alibi next year before launching later on the BBC and iPlayer in the U.K. (BritBox has aired Shakespeare & Hathaway in the U.S., so I can only surmise it will pick up Series 5 ). Series one to four are available on Britbox now.

Created by Paul Matthew Thompson and the late Jude Tindall, the series follows an unlikely pair of private investigators, hardboiled ex-cop Frank Hathaway (Benton), and warm-hearted ex-hairdresser Lu Shakespeare (Joyner), as they work the cobbled streets of Stratford-upon-Avon, solving thrilling cases and murders most foul.

Read more here. 

The Bay, Season 5, now streaming

The Bay returns with Season 5. The Bay is a BritBox Original, that premiered in North America on Wednesday, September 18, exclusively on BritBox. Sadly it isn't being shown in the UK yet. 

Season 5: DS Jenn Townsend (Marsha Thomason) and team have returned to the Lancashire coast with a brand new case for the Family Liaison Officer and the MIU team to investigate.  In a town cursed by the spirit of a dead Senator, the privileged and often times dysfunctional Bay City residents fight for redemption, true love and new beginnings in a town where murder, betrayal, heartbreak, and vengeance must be in the water.

Season 5 Cast:  Guest Cast includes Leanne Best (Young Wallander), Neil Maskell (Hijack), Suzanne Packer (Casualty), David Troughton (The Cafe), and Stephen Wight (Screw), who join Series Regulars Daniel Ryan (Crossfire), Erin Shanagher (Viewpoint), and Andrew Dowbiggin (Coronation Street).

The Bay: Season 5

UNFORGOTTEN, Season 5, Starts Sunday, September 3

Just a reminder, Unforgotten, Season 5, starts Sunday, September 3 at 9:00 p.m.  on MASTERPIECE  on PBS. Watch on air, online, and on the free PBS app.

This award-winning cold case crime drama follows veteran London detectives who uncover the truth behind tangled, complicated murders from the past. The new season sees DI Sunny Khan’s (Sanjeev Bhaskar) loyal and hard-working investigations team back to work and attempting to get along with a new and all too business-like DCI Jessica James (Sinéad Keenan). Jess’s first case is the discovery of human remains in a newly renovated period property in Hammersmith, London. But how long have they been there and is this a murder dating back to the 1930’s or has the body been disposed of in more recent times?

You can catch up with full episodes of Seasons 1 through 4 streaming now on PBS Passport.

Of course, I'll miss Nicola Walker, but I'm sure it will be a great season. 

Here's the trailer.