Yahoo News David Tennant: Broadchurch 2 backlash was inevitable
It's fair to say the second series of Broadchurch divided critics and fans - but star David Tennant thinks some backlash was "inevitable" after the show's initial success.
The first series of the ITV crime thriller wowed the nation, but reaction to the second - which aired in 2015 - was more mixed.
"I think it's inevitable, that's just what happens," Tennant - who plays DI Alec Hardy - told press including Digital Spy. "I don't think it was necessarily justified, but I understand why it happened."
The original Broadchurch was a whodunnit, with Hardy and DS Ellie Miller (Olivia Colman) investigating the murder of 11-year-old Danny Latimer (Oskar McNamara).
The second series chronicled both the trial of the murderer - Miller's husband Joe (Matthew Gravelle) - and the reopening of an old case of Hardy's.
The new series - starting Monday on ITV - will return to the whodunnit format, with Broadchurch resident Trish Winterman (Julie Hesmondhalgh) the victim of a serious sexual assault.
"I quite like going back to the whodunnit, I have to say," Colman said. "I think it'd be wrong to go, 'We have f**king nailed it!' - that doesn't seem like the right thing to do. But Chris [Chibnall, series creator and writer] is brilliant and he's come up with another beautiful story."
Tennant said that the atmosphere on the set of the show's third series was similar to that of the first, with the cast speculating as to who was responsible for the crime.
"It does become the topic of conversation through all moments of downtime - for everyone, because everyone's intrigued," he said. "I suppose that's a good sign. That was certainly the case in series one, which was more similar to this one with the whodunnit.
"In series two, we had a slightly different structure, but series one was very much a whodunnit and in a way, in a slightly different sense, so is this series.
"What happened when series one broadcast was that it went from being a conversation on a dining bus [on set] to being a national conversation, which was very exciting... and there certainly seems to be a similar kind of feeling on set this time."
Broadchurch returns to ITV on Monday (February 27) at 9pm.
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