Vera

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Work has started in Northumberland on a new production of ITV's Vera.

Guest stars Hugo Speer, Gary Lewis and Lolita Chakrabarti join Brenda Blethyn in Telling Tales, the second of four self contained films.

Set around the Northumberland coast, the second film follows DI Vera Stanhope (Brenda Blethyn) as she sets out to retrospectively resolve the mystery of Abigail Mantel’s murder.

Vera also stars Jon Morrison as DC Kenny, Elizabeth Edmunds as Mary Winter, Daniel Rose as Chris Winter, Emun Elliott as James Bennett and Kate Foster- Barnes as Emma Bennett.

The script, which is based on the book Telling Tales by Ann Cleeves, has been adapted for television by Paul Rutman who wrote the first Vera film and has also written for Marple and Lewis.

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Vera
Episode: 1 of 4
Sunday, 22 April 2012, 8:00PM - 10:00PM
Drama

The Ghost Position:

Following the success of the first series broadcast in 2011 international award winning actress Brenda Blethyn, OBE, makes a welcome return to ITV1 as Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope.

Set once again in contemporary Northumberland and Newcastle ITV Studios have produced four new stand-alone films of the hit crime thriller.

Guest stars include: Julie Graham (Lapland, Survivors, William & Mary), Steven Hartley (Doctors, The Bill), Ron Cook (Little Dorrit, The Diary of Anne Frank) and Nina Sosanya (Silk, Five Days).



Episode one:


In The Ghost Position D.C.I. Vera Stanhope (Brenda Blethyn) is reunited, under tragic circumstance, with her first ever Sergeant, Stuart Macken (Steven Hartley). When his house is petrol bombed, Stuart is left badly burned and his 18 year old daughter, Stella (Jessica Barden), is fighting for her life in intensive care. Vera is shocked to see Stuart is a shadow of the man she knew twenty years before and, when her back is turned, he commits suicide by throwing himself from the hospital balcony.

Vera, battling through grief for her former colleague and friend, is determined to track down the assailant and discover why someone would attempt to kill Stuart and Stella. Does the answer lie in the steep downturn Stuart’s personal and professional life has taken since they last met? With Stella in a coma, Vera and Joe pick their way through her former Sergeant’s recent history and uncover his broken family and the destruction caused by his inability to let them go. Soon they are hot on the trail of a suspect, but a dramatic discovery turns the case on its head, revealing the event at the heart of these catastrophic and heartbreaking events.

[Perdita]

Vera
Episode: 2 of 4
Sunday, 29 April 2012, 8:00PM - 10:00PM
Drama

Silent Voices:

Following the success of the first series broadcast in 2011 international award winning actress Brenda Blethyn, OBE, makes a welcome return to ITV1 as Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope.

Set once again in contemporary Northumberland and Newcastle ITV Studios have produced four new stand-alone films of the hit crime thriller.

Adapted by Gaby Chiappe (based on the novel by Ann Cleeves) and directed by Paul Whittington. Guest stars in Silent Voices include: Kaye Wragg (No Angels, The Lakes). Actress Cush Jumbo (The Inbetweeners Movie, Lip Service, Torchwood) joins the detective team as D.C. Bethany Whelan.

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D.C.I. Vera Stanhope (Brenda Blethyn) investigates the case of murdered social worker, Jenny Lister. Deciphering the motive behind the brutal murder of a woman who presents as honourable and well liked proves difficult but an infamous case involving the death of a child appears to hold the key. Working tirelessly, Vera and her team uncover the failure of an understaffed and overworked social work system and the far reaching effects for all those involved.

Through her innate empathy and intuition, Vera determinedly pursues the truth until she discovers the real secret at the heart of Jenny's death and the killer who will stop at nothing to protect it. Knowing that the murderer has already targeted their next victim, Vera and Joe (David Leon) are faced with a race against time - will they get there in time to prevent another death?

© Copyright ITV plc 2012

[N.Fan]

Looking forward to this new series,I enjoyed the last one and really like Brenda Blethyn.

[Perdita]

Vera
Episode: 3 of 4
Sunday, 13 May 2012, 8:00PM - 10:00PM



Sandancers:

Following the success of the first series broadcast in 2011 international award winning actress Brenda Blethyn, OBE, makes a welcome return to ITV1 as Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope.

Set once again in contemporary Northumberland and Newcastle ITV Studios have produced four new stand-alone films of the hit crime thriller.

Written by Colin Teevan and directed by Julian Holmes guest stars include: Barbara Marten (Kidnap and Ransom, Waking the Dead, Casualty), Clare Calbraith (Downton Abbey, The Shadow Line) and Naomi Bentley (Love Life, White Man Van, Ideal).

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D.C.I. Vera Stanhope (Brenda Blethyn) and D.S. Joe Ashworth investigate a suspicious death in an army barracks, aided by Shep (Clare Calbraith), an enthusiastic and pro-active member of the Military Police. While the death of commanding officer Dev initially looks like suicide, murder is quickly established and the team need to find both a motive and a killer.

Sensing a connection to Ollie (Ben Aldridge), a soldier killed in Afghanistan, Vera interviews Devaney's (Barry McGee) loyal comrades, Vince (Steve Cree) and Budgie (Alex Price), and Ollie's grieving and angry family, quickly establishing there's a traumatic event which no-one wants to talk about. Through persistence and instinct Vera finally reveals the complicated turn of events that led to an act of revenge and the deaths of more than one soldier.

[Perdita]

Vera
Episode: 4 of 4
Sunday, 20 May 2012, 8:00PM - 10:00PM

EPISODIC SYNOPSIS:

A Certain Samaritan:

In the final episode of the second series D.C.I. Vera Stanhope (Brenda Blethyn) investigates the murder of 29 year old Niall Coulter. Circling Niall’s nearest and dearest including his mother Shirley (Phyllis Logan), Vera peels back the seemingly benign layers of his life to discover a deeper truth which those closest to him seem unwilling to give up. It is not until the body of a drug dealer is found washed up on a Northumberland beach that the dreadful truth begins to emerge about the heroin found present in Niall’s body.

While faced with potentially life changing discoveries in her own life, Vera steers her way through the evidence of grief, love, protection and addiction that surrounded Niall’s life and deduces that his murderer acted through a selfless and unrequited love of their own.