Sherwood series 3 starts filming — new cast announced and a story update

The BBC has announced filming has started for Sherwood series 3. A lot has happened in Ashford since series 2.

What are the cast details for Sherwood series 3, and what’s the story this time

The third series sees a mixture of new and returning cast including Rosalie Craig (Riot Women, The Hack), Joe Dempsie (Get Millie Black, Toxic Town), Kirby Howell-Baptiste (The Sandman, Sugar), Sue Johnston (True Love, The Royle Family), Peter Wight (Another Year, A Confession), Ben Batt (Riot Women, Toxic Town) and Adam Long (Day of the Jackal, Masters of the Air) joining regular cast David Morrissey, Lorraine Ashbourne, Lesley Manville, Claire Rushbrook, Perry Fitzpatrick, Bill Jones and Robert Lindsay. Lindsay Duncan and Robert Glenister also return to reprise their roles from season one.

As to the story:

Sherwood returns to the Nottinghamshire former mining community of Ashfield, following the dramatic conclusion of series two’s Branson and Sparrow family feud as Daphne Sparrow watched Ann Branson, the matriarch of her criminal family, disappear into the depths of the reservoir.

Six months on, the third series of Sherwood sees a new family at its heart. The Wood family is the picture of working-class respectability – pillars of the community, volunteers at the local church, with Zoe Wood (Craig), in particular, a passionate campaigner on behalf of her town. Husband Alex Wood (Dempsie) is overseeing construction of the new Gotham housing estate which is being built in the shadows of Sherwood Forest, and where they live with their kids and Zoe’s parents, Irene and Eric Bostall (Johnston and Wight), as the estate’s first residents.

Meanwhile, DI Zara Gill (Howell-Baptiste) is leading the operation into identifying the numerous human remains that were found in the reservoir during the recovery operation following Ann’s drowning. The trail leads to several missing people linked to the Bransons’ criminal activities but one specific discovery unexpectedly leads back to the Bostall family.

Forty years after he first went missing, the body of Arthur Bostall is unearthed from Nottingham’s ancient caves, and a series of unnerving questions begins to arise over who killed him and why. As the Wood and Bostall families find themselves being forced to look back into the past, events in the present conspire to uncover more buried secrets for the family and the wider community alike.

We expect to see the show again later this year. We’ll bring you news as we get it.