Series 17 begins at 9pm on Thursday 2 January on BBC One. The second episode of the opening two-part story, ‘Commodity’, will air the following night.

Emilia Fox returns as Forensic Pathologist Dr. Nikki Alexander alongside Forensic Scientist Jack Hodgson (David Caves) and Forensic Lab Scientist Clarissa Mullery (Liz Carr), and is joined by new cast member Richard Lintern (Spies of Warsaw, White Heat) as Forensic Pathologist Dr. Thomas Chamberlain, the new head of The Lyell Centre.

‘Commodity’ follows Premiership footballer Isaac Dreyfus as he finds his days at the top are numbered when a sex tape links him to the brutal murder of a young woman, threatening to destroy his reputation and marriage. Dreyfus desperately fights to prove his innocence, while disillusioned Adam Freedman turns to a mysterious source for help to avenge the murder of his wife and child.

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