Blue Lights season three: Star Sian Brooke says next series will be ‘a corker’

The primetime actress plays Grace Ellis, one of the main characters in Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson’s popular PSNI-based series.

The hit BBC show was renewed for a third and fourth outing before the second season had even gone to air, and speaking to RadioTimes.com on the red carpet at the Baftas, Brooke said that she knows the next series is “going to be very exciting”.

She added: "I do know that — and it's going to be a corker!”

She also told Virgin Radio that “for the BBC to commission two [more] series, it just doesn’t happen very often. So it’s a wonderful sort of... it gives you a sense of confidence in what you’ve done”.

“To be able to have that longevity, that arc of the character that you’re playing [is great] — as long as they don’t kill me off!”

While no specific plot points could be divulged, viewers are already guessing what lies in store for the NI police officers, with many fans having already binged all episodes of the first two series, as they are available to stream on BBC iPlayer.

The second series is still currently airing weekly on BBC One also, with the sixth and final episode set to broadcast this coming Monday at 9pm.

Brooke, who has also appeared in the psychological thriller Doctor Foster and the award-winning detective show Sherlock, further noted that the writers and creators behind Blue Lights deserve a lot of praise for how well it has been received by all audiences and critics.

"I think it's a show with heart, and I think it's really brilliantly written, and I think that it highlights a place and shines a light on a city that I think people are intrigued about," she explained.

"They might not understand it as much, and I think through this there are people who go, 'Ah, OK,' and sort of understand that it's not black and white, it's sort of all the nuances.

"And yeah, I think it's that, and I think it's very much just genuine human beings going to do their best.

Speaking about the whole crew, she continued: “It’s such an amazing team. It’s quite special in that — I don’t want to say the cliche thing of it being like a family — but it genuinely is!

“It’s in the script, that friendship… when you’re doing a job that has loads of grave responsibilities, there is a level of humour in that to sort of keep your sanity.”

The big winners of Sunday’s Bafta TV Awards included Top Boy, Happy Valley and The Sixth Commandment.

Blue Lights was overlooked in this year’s nominations, but last month Richard Dormer won best Supporting Actor in a Drama at the Irish Film & Television Awards for his performance in the critically acclaimed first series of the show.

Happy Valley, Top Boy and The Sixth Commandment celebrate wins at Bafta TV awards