TRAILER: Suranne Jones and Rose Leslie head to the Arctic for a third season of Vigil, which will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer later this year.
DCI Amy Silva (Jones) and DI Kirsten Longacre (Leslie) return for a new case that takes them to a remote Arctic research station, where a member of a covert British special forces mission has been shot dead.
Amy and Kirsten will need to catch the killer and defuse a potential international confrontation, driven by a land-grab for energy and resources in the changing polar climate, with both their careers and relationship on the line.
The cast also includes Gary Lewis (DS Robertson) and Dominic Mafham (Sir Ian Dowing), who reprise their roles. New cast includes Jeppe Beck Laursen, Steven Miller, Naomi Yang, Benjamin Wainwright, Tornike Gogrichiani, Danusia Samal, Artur Zai Barrera, Jordan Duvigneau, Kaisa Hammarlund, Adam Fidusiewicz, Eric Godon, Conor Berry, Amy Manson, Jason Tobin, Steven Cree, Killian Coyle, Derek Riddell, Alma Prelec, Dawn Sievewright and Shereen Cutkelvin.
The six-part series, made by World Productions (Line of Duty), filmed in Svalbard and Scotland. It is written and created by Tom Edge with additional writers Tom Mair and Eve Hedderwick Turner. The producer is Marcus Wilson, and associate producer is George Aza-Selinger.
Executive producers are Jake Lushington for World Productions, Gaynor Holmes for the BBC and Tom Edge. Stephanie Fyfe is the commissioning executive for the BBC. The series is directed by Gareth Bryn (Karen Pirie, The Gathering) and Faye Gilbert (The Bay, The Tower).
International distribution is handled by ITV Studios.
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