Francesca Mills and Maggie Steed join the Silent Witness team at The Lyell Centre for Series 28. Ahead of its return in early 2025, the BBC have announced some news about the upcoming run of Silent Witness. The show’s 28th series opens with a disturbing mystery, when the death of an elderly woman found in … >
Emilia Fox returns as Dr Nikki Alexander as the team tackle another series of chilling cases. The enduring Silent Witness returns to BBC One tonight for a remarkable series 27. The upcoming run is comprised of 5 two-part stories. We can look forward to a body in an abandoned church sparking fears of a serial … >
Amanda Burton (Anne Boleyn, Marcella) makes a dramatic return to Silent Witness as she reprises her role of Sam Ryan in BBC Studios production for BBC One Amanda first appeared in the lead role of pathologist Sam Ryan in 1996, starring in 54 episodes before leaving in 2004, when her character returned home to Northern … >
Jason Wong (The Gentlemen, Chimerica, Strangers) has joined the cast of BBC One’s hugely popular primetime drama Silent Witness, which is currently filming its 24th series. February 2020 saw two of the series’ regular characters: Clarissa Mullery (Liz Carr) and Dr Thomas Chamberlain (Richard Lintern), leave the show in the explosive finale. Series 24 finds Dr … >
The BBC’s iPlayer service has got off quite a start in 2018, as the first official figures for 2018 have revealed it’s already been the busiest month on record for the service. In all, 328 million programme requests were registered, up 10% on January 2017. What’s more, the first big hit of the service this … >
Long-running crime drama Silent Witness returns to BBC One to celebrate its 20th anniversary. The new season features five thrilling contemporary stories that start among the familiar landscapes of London and end up in the dusty scrubland of Mexico, tackling some of the issues the world faces today, from the Refugee Crisis to Cartel Violence … >
In the two most recent episodes of Silent Witness, we find ourselves midway through the 20th season and as expected, BBC One’s long-running crime drama shows no signs of lowering expectations. Part 1 finds the team on the hunt for a killer when a body of a young student is pulled from a river. Whilst initially … >
BBC One has announced the commission of a new true crime drama from Silent Witness writer Ed Whitmore and Born To Kill writer Tracey Malone. Rillington Place is based on the real life multiple murders that took place around the late 1940s/early 1950s at the notorious address in Notting Hill. The three 60-minute episodes will … >
Alas! As quickly as Silent Witness came back it’s now time for the series to disappear again until next year’s momentous anniversary. It’s fair to say that the nineteenth season of BBC One’s long-running crime drama has seen the show reach new heights, with this week’s two-part finale ensuring it still remains must-see television after … >
The penultimate story of Silent Witness’s nineteenth season, ‘In Plain Sight’ sees the Lyell team investigating a brutal murder and a link to an old incident involving Firearms Division. Written by Tracey Malone and Matt Arlidge, this week’s two-part story provides an opportunity for David Caves to shine, as Jack Hodgson gets straight to the … >