Exciting new and returning ITV dramas you need to watch in 2025 with Happy Valley and Mr Bates vs The Post Office stars

ITV person a wide scope of dramas coming to viewers' screens during 2025.

With some returning favourites and caller shows, play pieces and modern stories, the programmes screen a batch of bases.

Read connected beneath for the must-see ITV dramas to ticker coming up into 2025.

Unforgotten (Series Six)

Series six of Unforgotten sees Sinéad Keenan and Sanjeev Bhaskar reprise their roles arsenic DCI Jess James and DI Sunil ‘Sunny’ Khan.

The crime play explores investigations into acold cases -that is, unresolved transgression investigations.

In the latest outing, suspected quality remains are discovered connected Whitney Marsh.

Analysis showing these remains are comparatively caller implies a grim outcome: that the assemblage had been placed determination already dismembered.

Additional returning actors see Andrew Lancel arsenic Jess' hubby Steve, arsenic good arsenic Kate Robbins arsenic her parent Kate.

Further formed members see MyAnna Buring, Max Fairley, Elham Elas, Victoria Hamilton, Jan Francis and Damien Maloney.

Protection

Happy Valley's Siobhan Finneran keads the formed of this police drama/conspiracy thriller.

Her character, DI Liz Nyles, is simply a compromised - but yet honorable - officer, moving successful the secretive satellite of Witness Protection.

She is juggling her front-line occupation with a pressurised household beingness and her dada recovering from a stroke.

A horrifying incidental astatine enactment raises superior questions astir the integrity of Liz’s unit.

Facing accusations of corruptions, it is soon thought idiosyncratic has been leaking accusation to organised crime.

With horror, Liz begins to speculate if she has unwittingly compromised herself.

Does her younger, joined person Paul Brandice (Barry Ward) person sinister motives - and has helium been manipulating Liz?

Protection besides stars Katherine Kelly, Kris Hitchen, Alec Newman, Channell Kular and Nadine Marshall.

A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story

Bohemian Rhapsody's Lucy Boynton takes connected the starring relation successful this untold communicative of nighttime nine manageress Ruth Ellis - the past pistillate to bent successful the UK.

Set successful 1955, the amusement is based connected Carol Ann Lee's acclaimed biography A Fine Day for Hanging: The Real Ruth Ellis Story

Mr Bates and the Post Office's Toby Jones besides stars successful the four-part drama, successful the relation of Ruth's solicitor John Bickford.

Gradually, Bickford realises the grade of Ruth's maltreatment astatine the hands of her person David Blakely (Laurie Davidson) - and fights to marque the lawsuit for provocation.

The all-star line-up besides features Nigel Havers, Mark Stanley, Arthur Darvill, Juliet Stevenson, Toby Stephens and Joe Armstrong.

Karen Pirie (Series Two)

Lauren Lyle is reprising her BAFTA-winning relation arsenic backstage researcher Karen Pirie.

In 1984, oil luck heiress Catriona Grant is kidnapped astatine gunpoint alongside her young lad Adam.

It sparks a immense investigation but erstwhile the culprits autumn silent, the
case runs acold and Catriona and Adam are ne'er seen again.

40 years later, Karen Pirie investigates erstwhile a man's assemblage is discovered - and is assigned to reopen the lawsuit successful implicit secrecy.

Alongside her team, they are tasked with unlocking an infamous Scottish enigma portion evading immoderate media attention.

What happened to Catriona Grant?

Also appearing are Emer Kenny (the show's scriptwriter), Chris Jenks, Steve John Shepherd, Rahkee Thakrar, James Cosmo and John Michie.

Out There

Doc Martin's Martin Clunes stars arsenic a husbandman facing sinister forces seeping into his agrarian community.

The play highlights the devastating interaction arsenic the farmer's livelihood is threatened by section region lines cause dealers.

Essentially, these are municipality gangs utilising the British countryside arsenic a basal of operations.

Scripted by Ed Whitmore, the amusement takes spot successful the Welsh countryside.

Playing Nice

BAFTA-winning Happy Valley prima James Norton stars successful this intelligence thriller.

It follows 2 couples who observe their toddlers were switched astatine commencement successful a infirmary mix-up.

Now faced with an intolerable situation, bash they support the sons they've raised oregon reclaim their biologic child?

The constricted series' formed besides features Niamh Algar, Jessica Brown Findlay and James McArdle successful starring roles.

The Bay (Series Five)

Coming backmost for its 5th series, Marsha Thomason returns arsenic Morecambe’s MIU Family Liaison Officer DS Jenn Townsend.

In the caller episode, a 23-year-old assemblage pupil is recovered dormant connected the borderline of the docks.

Returning to enactment pursuing the decease of her father, Jenn pushes her ain grief speech to enactment the family.

As the investigation's stakes increase, Jenn grapples with her idiosyncratic and nonrecreational struggles arsenic she builds bridges with her ain relatives.

Guest formed for the caller bid includes Leanne Best, Neil Maskell, David Troughton and Tara Lynne O'Neill.

Grantchester (Series Nine)

The upcoming bid of Grantchester sees the accomplishment of a caller vicar -- Alphy Kotteram, played by Hollyoaks' Rishi Nair.

Meanwhile the amusement is bidding farewell to Reverend Will Davenport (Tom Brittney).

Set successful 1961, each is good for Will and Geordie (Robson Green), but arsenic Will is approached with a life-changing connection - tin helium permission Grantchester behind?

As for the Reverend Alphy Kotteram, helium has a distrust for authorization and nary inclination to get progressive successful execution investigations.

Soon, Alphy and Geordie observe much similarities than they archetypal realise - and the newcomer learns execution is ne'er acold successful Grantchester.

The Dry (Series Two)

Roisin Gallagher returns to play recovering alcoholic Shiv Sheridan, with the different bid 1 regulars besides returning.

Picking up 7 months later, the Sheridans are present successful their "new normal".

Outwardly, it appears the household is comparatively content, with Shiv sober, celibate and solvent for six months.

Not to notation that Ant has hung onto his occupation astatine the
estate cause and his narration with Max, portion Caroline's been exploring the benefits of Tinder.

All seems mean -- oregon is it?

Party of Five

A fashionable US 90s teen drama, the amusement follows the 5 Salinger siblings pursuing their parents' deaths successful a car accident.

The cardinal characters are Charlie (Matthew Fox), Bailey (Scott Wolf), Julia (Neve Campbell) and Claudia (Lacey Chabert).

Also beryllium connected the lookout for ER's Scott Grimes and I Know What You Did Last Summer's Jennifer Love Hewitt successful large supporting roles.

Watch on arsenic the Salingers navigate managing their ain lives, archetypal loves and increasing up.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

This smash-hit supernatural play bid primitively aired from 1997 to 2003.

Starring Sarah Michelle Gellar successful the rubric role, it followed a young pistillate who happens to beryllium latest successful a succession of women known arsenic "Vampire Slayers".

Chosen by fate, their relation is to combat against vampires and different sinister forces.

Buffy herself receives guidance on the mode from her "Watcher" - Giles, who is played by Anthony Stewart Head.

The ensemble formed besides includes Alyson Hannigan, David Boreanaz, James Marsters and Charisma Carpenter.

Belgravia The Next Chapter

Set successful 1871, this bid picks up 30 years aft the events of Belgravia, written by Downton Abbey scribe Julian Fellowes.

Penned by Helen Edmundson, Belgravia The Next Chapter tells the communicative of Frederick Trenchard - the 3rd Lord Glanville - and his caller emotion involvement Clara Dunn.

Frederick is unaware his commencement was from an matter betwixt his mother
Susan and rogue John Bellasis.

A troubled puerility has near him feeling insecure - challenging Frederick's narration with Clara.