

The Long Call will air across four consecutive nights on ITV and, as its third episode goes out on Wednesday night, the second episode of Shetland series 6 will air on BBC1. READ MORE: I'm A Celebrity's new series will be 'more gruelling than ever' Matthew is forced to re-engage with the community he left, including the most painful and challenging of relationships, with his mother Dorothy played by award-winning actress Juliet Stevenson.

Her experiences make her more real.Two novels inspired by the books of Tyneside author Ann Cleeves will go head to head on TV next week as The Long Call launches on ITV and Shetland returns to BBC.Īfter its announcement stirred up considerable excitement, viewers will finally get a first look at The Long Call on Monday, October 25, with former Our Girl actor Ben Aldridge in the lead role of Detective Inspector Matthew Venn, who makes a return to home turf after years away to lead a shocking murder investigation back where it all began for him. But I think we need more police officers like Jen. I think a lot of those emotions are bubbling away under the surface and can get triggered quite easily. “I think essentially what she really wants to do is protect people and she doesn’t want anyone to experience what she has been through. It makes her instinctive and really empathetic but also can make her a bit headstrong and a bit quick to judge. I think she has a heightened sense of empathy for people who are in vulnerable situations and particularly women in vulnerable situations.

“I think in a way that gives her a different approach to being a police officer. When we meet her, she’s left London, she’s escaped from a really abusive relationship that she was in for many many, years with the father of her children. Pearl spoke to press about playing a character with a difficult back story.
