Derry Girls star joins hit ITV drama The Bay ahead of fifth series

CRIME fans won't person agelong to hold to get their adjacent instalment of constabulary play from Morecambe Bay.

ITV volition invited backmost crime play The Bay for a 5th play next year, which volition spot regular faces returning and welcoming caller ones.

Derry Girls prima Tara Lynne O'Neil joins the cast, and is champion known for her relation arsenic Mary Quinn successful the Northern Ireland based comedy connected Channel 4.

Tara volition instrumentality connected the quality of Sinead, DI Tony Manning's (Daniel Ryan) caller spouse successful The Bay.

Returning to the fashionable transgression series, Marsha Thomason volition reprise her relation arsenic DS Jenn Townsend, alongside regulars Daniel Ryan, Erin Shanagher and Andrew Dowbiggin.

Barry Sloane volition besides instrumentality and reprise his relation arsenic Chris Fischer. Georgia Scholes plays Chris' girl Erin, with David Carpenter and Emme Hayes returning arsenic Jenn's children Conor and Maddie.

Other caller faces see Happy Valley's Olwen May has joined the cast, whilst Casualty prima Suzanne Packer volition represent Jenn's parent Anne Townsend.

The 5th bid of The Bay is acceptable to person different absorbing crippled enactment arsenic the website synopsis reads: "When 23-year-old assemblage pupil Hannah is recovered dormant connected the borderline of the docks, Morecambe's MIU squad has different lawsuit to lick - Jenn, who is returning to enactment pursuing the decease of her father, pushes speech her ain grief to enactment Hannah's bitterly divided family.

"With the stakes of the investigation high, Jenn and the squad excavation deeper into the case, uncovering hidden friendships and concealed liaisons arsenic choler rises successful the pupil community.

"As the strength increases and the squad peel backmost the analyzable layers of Hannah's beingness and the secrets wrong it, Jenn indispensable reconcile her idiosyncratic and nonrecreational struggles arsenic she grapples to lick the case, travel to presumption with her ain loss, and physique bridges with her family."

Polly Hill, ITV's Head of Drama, commented connected the bid returning: "We're delighted to beryllium returning to Morecambe for different bid of The Bay.

"The bid is simply a immense occurrence communicative for ITV and we're grateful to [executive producer] Catherine Oldfield, [co-creator/writer] Daragh Carville and the squad astatine Tall Story Pictures for continuing to make compelling stories and characters."

Executive Producer Catherine Oldfield added: "Daragh and I couldn't beryllium happier to beryllium heading backmost to Morecambe with Marsha and the squad for different case.

"We emotion making the amusement and truthful we're delighted to beryllium producing different bid for ITV and viewers astatine location and abroad."

All 4 bid of The Bay truthful acold are disposable to watercourse connected ITVX.