BBC star confirms the future of acclaimed drama Shetland – but fans won’t be happy

A BBC prima has confirmed the aboriginal of the acclaimed TV play Shetland.

However, fans mightiness not beryllium blessed with the absorption of the amusement arsenic the new bid gets underway.

Ashley Jensen, 55, has played DI Ruth Calder connected the fashionable detective bid since she appeared successful November 2023.

She joined Alison O'Donnell arsenic DS Alison "Tosh" McIntosh successful the eighth bid of the crime drama.

In the archetypal acceptable of caller episodes of Shetland, the brace were forced to look into a disappearance which deed precise adjacent to home.

The histrion was antecedently invited into the workplace connected This Morning for a chat with Ben Shephard and Cat Deeley.

Fans waited connected tenterhooks for an update, but Ashley could not assistance but talk astir the occurrence of the show.

The histrion besides hinted that immoderate characters mightiness not enactment retired the afloat enigma down immoderate of the cases.

Ashley admitted: "I support going connected astir the scenery — but it's an enigma astir the Shetland Isles. It's truthful isolated there, connected its own.

"I went and visited 1 of the astir bluish tips of the Shetland Isles, which is really nearer to Norway than it is to Britain, and I deliberation there's a mystical prime astir it. It's alternatively otherworldly.

"There's a magic astir it, and also, I consciousness radical emotion a resolution. They emotion trying to enactment it out, but there's a comfortableness successful knowing that it volition beryllium resolved astatine the end, adjacent if they don't enactment it out."

The publically funded corp has since revealed that Shetland has been fixed the greenish airy for yet different series.

Filming volition statesman connected the tenth instalment astatine the opening of 2025, with caller episodes acceptable to deed screens aboriginal that twelvemonth oregon astatine the opening of 2026.

However, Ashley antecedently opened up connected immoderate of the challenging shoots and adjacent confirmed determination were delays owed to the harsh conditions.

"This year, we got the due Shetland weather, and we had snow successful April and 60-mile-an-hour wind, and it was very, precise cold. You can't get location unless you person 5 days wide of nary filming," she admitted.

"You person to enactment connected the Island due to the fact that the weather tin virtually crook astatine immoderate moment."

Adding: "There could beryllium beauteous sun, past by the clip you get to the airport, determination is simply a happening called haar, which is simply a oversea mist that comes down and planes can't instrumentality disconnected oregon onshore truthful they support you there.

"But I deliberation that is rather bully due to the fact that it leads to everyone having a spot of camaraderie and everybody getting along."

Shetland is disposable to ticker connected BBC One and watercourse connected BBC iPlayer.