Time to meet the cast and creators of Blue Lights series 3

The cast and creators of are “back and ready for action” promising more high-stakes, gripping moments than ever before. Blue Lights series 3 is set to plunge viewers into a dark world lurking beneath the surface of middle-class life in Belfast as the collapse of the old political and criminal order has paved the way for a new era of global gangs. The show returns to BBC One at 9 pm on September 29.

What is Blue Lights series 3 about?

Expanding on the above, a new media pack from the BBC tells us:

Two years into their jobs as response officers Grace, Annie and Tommy are accustomed to life under the blue lights. But their work will take them into a sinister world hidden behind the veneer of middle-class life, the world of the accountants and lawyers who facilitate organised crime. The old political and criminal order has gone and a new global gang rule Belfast, bringing danger closer to home for our officers than ever before.

The cast includes Siân Brooke (Grace), Martin McCann (Stevie), Katherine Devlin (Annie), Nathan Braniff (Tommy), Joanne Crawford (Helen), Andi Osho (Sandra), Frank Blake (Shane), Abigail McGibbon, (Tina) Dearbháile McKinney (Aisling) and Andrea Irvine (Nicola).

Who is interviewed in the new media pack?

From the creative side, we have Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson, the co-creators, co-writers and executive producers. They introduce one of the new characters:

“Cathy Tyson plays Dana Morgan, a new powerful figure on the criminal side, and her nemesis within the police is Intelligence Department cop Paul Collins (Colly) who is played by Michael Smiley. In saying that, many of the regular characters are back and ready for action. We hope there are quite a few gripping moments, and a few emotional ones too. In this season our main characters go through some very difficult things.”

Most of the cast are also interviewed, with plenty of insight into how their characters have evolved (if relevant) in the time the show has been running. There’s also a link to the trailer: