BBC Blue Lights series three start date confirmed and it's just weeks away

The new series is just weeks away

Fans of the hit BBC series Blue Lights have just days to wait until the third series hits our screens. The police drama set in Northern Ireland averaged 5.6M viewers across its second series, while episode one’s 7M made it the BBC’s fourth biggest drama launch last year.

A graphic posted on the BBC's social media pages have teased the launch of the new series for 29th September.

On the new series, a BBC statement said: "Two years into their jobs as response officers Grace, Annie and Tommy are accustomed to life under the blue lights.

"But their work will take them into a sinister world hidden behind the veneer of middle-class life, the world of the accountants and lawyers who facilitate organised crime.

"The old political and criminal order has gone and a new global gang rule Belfast, bringing danger closer to home for our officers than ever before."

The show stars Siân Brooke (Grace), Martin McCann (Stevie), Katherine Devlin (Annie), Nathan Braniff (Tommy), Joanne Crawford (Helen), Andi Osho (Sandra), Frank Blake (Shane), Abigail McGibbon, (Tina) Dearbháile McKinney (Aisling) and Andrea Irvine (Nicola).

The cast are joined this year by Cathy Tyson (Boiling Point, Dune: Prophecy) who plays private members club owner, Dana Morgan and Michael Smiley (Bad Sisters, Censor) as new intelligence officer Paul ‘Colly’ Collins.

Northern Ireland comedian Micky Bartlett also confirmed in an interview with Belfast Live this week that he has a cameo role in the new series.

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