Yahoo News ITV's Unforgotten officially starts filming brand new season
ITV's Unforgotten has officially begun filming its sixth season.
The hit crime drama wrapped up its fifth run just under a year ago, with a follow-up season swiftly confirmed after the finale aired.
The broadcaster has now confirmed that filming has commenced, with Sanjeev Bhaskar and Sinéad Keenan returning as DI Sunil 'Sunny' Khan and DCI Jess James.
You can see a picture from the first season six read-through below:
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Among the new cast additions are His Dark Materials' Victoria Hamilton as lecturer Juliet Cooper and The Witcher's MyAnna Buring as outspoken TV commentator Melinda Ricci.
Newcomer Max Fairley will play an autistic man called Martin Baines and Elham Elas has been cast as an Afghan training for his UK citizenship test called Asif Syed. Casualty's Jan Francis and Brassic's Damien Molony are also set to appear.
The characters all "live separate lives, yet they are intrinsically linked by their past and it’s for Jess, Sunny and their team to unravel these connections in search of the truth, and ultimately, who perpetrated the cold case murder".
The synopsis adds: "When suspected human remains are discovered on Whitney Marsh, Jess and Sunny are called to the scene, ditching their respective plans for the evening much to Jess’s husband Steve’s chagrin.
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"With Dr Balcombe’s expert analysis of the human spine, it’s evident the remains are relatively recent and her guess is the body was put there already dismembered. With this knowledge Jess and Sunny begin to search the area believing other body parts may not be too far away."
Writer Chris Lang said: “I'm incredibly excited to be about to start filming the sixth series of Unforgotten, with a story that has been gestating for nearly eight years, since the 23rd June 2016, when our country seemed to fracture in two.
"The UK, and indeed the world, has today never seemed more divided, and series six attempts to try and understand how we got to where we are now, and perhaps more importantly, where we can go from here.”
Unforgotten airs on ITV and ITVX.
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