Series 5 of Morecambe based crime drama The Bay is finally to be broadcast on TV – but not in the UK.
Filming of the new series wrapped last year, but despite anticipation from fans of the popular programme, an official date for the series to be broadcast in the UK has yet to be announced by ITV.
The new series will premiere first on the streaming service BritBox, to viewers in the USA and Canada, and will be available from tomorrow (Wednesday September 18).
UK viewers will have to wait a little longer to enjoy the new series on television, with the series set to first premiere at a film festival in Morecambe in November.
Writer Daragh Carville will also take part in a Q&A at the Bay International Film Festival, which is taking place every weekend in November, closing with an awards ceremony on December 1.
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In the new series, Marsha Thomason will return as Morecambe MIU’s Family Liaison Officer, DS Jenn Townsend, alongside cast regulars Daniel Ryan, Erin Shanagher and Andrew Dowbiggin. Olwen May (Happy Valley, Trying) will join the team in Morecambe. Barry Sloane returns as Chris Fischer. Georgia Scholes plays Chris’s daughter Erin, and David Carpenter and Emme Hayes return as Conor and Maddie, Jenn’s children. Suzanne Packer (Casualty, Keeping Faith) joins as Jenn’s mum, Anne Townsend.

In the fifth season of The Bay, Morecambe’s MIU team has another case to solve after a 23-year-old university student named Hannah Dawson (Sarah Eve, Death on the Nile) is found dead on the edge of the docks. DS Townsend, who is returning to work following the death of her father, pushes aside her own grief to support Hannah’s bitterly divided family.
With the stakes of the investigation high, Jenn and the team dig deep into the case and uncover hidden friendships and secret liaisons, while anger rises in the student community.
As the intensity increases and the team peels back the complicated layers of Hannah’s life and the secrets within it, Jenn must reconcile both her personal and professional struggles as she grapples to solve the case, come to terms with her own loss, and build bridges with her family.


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