Future of hit BBC drama The Jetty revealed after leading lady Jenna Coleman takes break from acting

TWISTY thriller The Jetty, which starred Jenna Coleman successful the pb role, has proved specified a deed that the creators are successful talks astir doing a 2nd series.

The archetypal episode debuted connected BBC One successful July and drew an awesome assemblage of 8million viewers, connected the nighttime and done catch-up.

Now the Beeb privation to drawback the upwind successful their sails and transportation writer Cat Jones to present a follow-up, but the full process remains astatine an aboriginal stage.

A TV insider said: “There are respective hoops they request to leap done earlier it gets to the signifier wherever it volition decidedly happen.

“Leading woman Jenna, who was besides an enforcement shaper connected the drama, has precocious had a kid with spouse Jamie Childs and truthful is apt to beryllium taking a interruption from enactment for immoderate time.

"But anyone who watched the archetypal bid volition besides cognize that continuing the communicative volition beryllium tricky, but not impossible.

“Even if they made speedy progress, filming would beryllium improbable to commencement until precocious adjacent twelvemonth with the last bid not airing until 2026.”

Jenna had attracted attraction astatine the motorboat of the play successful the summer, chiefly due to the fact that she turned up with a alternatively ample babe bump connected show.

It had lone been revealed days earlier that she was pregnant, but successful a Q&A league astatine the lawsuit she didn’t notation her impending motherhood once, preferring to absorption solely connected The Jetty.

The four-parter was acceptable successful Lancashire and pivoted astir the cardinal quality of DC Ember Manning, played by erstwhile Doctor Who and Victoria histrion Jenna.

It begins with her investigating a occurrence successful a vacation location which past segues into an aged missing idiosyncratic case.

But it reaches a curveball decision that stunned galore viewers.

Good luck trying to outdo themselves by beating that ending . . . 

The BBC declined to comment.

ELEMENTARY, MY DEAR COLIN

HATS disconnected to Colin Firth for transforming himself for his latest relation successful Prime Video’s upcoming series, Young Sherlock.

The Love Actually and Bridget Jones prima often seems to play parts which are alternatively similar, surely erstwhile it comes to their appearance.

But Colin is virtually unrecognisable arsenic helium takes connected the relation of Sir Bucephalus Hodge successful the adaptation of Andrew Lane’s novels by manager and enforcement shaper Guy Ritchie.

Hero Fiennes Tiffin plays the pb relation of a 19-year-old Sherlock who gets caught up successful a execution enigma astatine Oxford University.

He’ll besides prima alongside his uncle Joseph Fiennes.

Colin volition soon beryllium seen successful a precise antithetic drama, playing campaigner and grieving begetter Jim Swire successful the Sky amusement Lockerbie: A Search For Truth, retired connected January 2.

HEAT’S ON FOR BAKE OFF TRIO

THE Great British Bake Off finalists volition beryllium hoping they emergence to the juncture successful tonight’s expansive finale.

Georgie Grasso, Christiaan De Vries and Dylan Bachelet volition cook scones and hole a lavish day tea.

But adjacent if they don’t they each consciousness similar winners regardless.

Nurse Georgie said: “The accumulation squad told maine I’m the archetypal ever Welsh finalist.

“ I felt similar I’ve done it for not lone myself, but for Wales.

Menswear decorator Christiaan, 33, said: “The infinitesimal we heard we were finalists, we were implicit the moon.”

And retail temp Dylan, 20, added: “I learned a batch from the others and added that helium had “loved” the signature baking challenge.

Judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith volition crown their winner contiguous connected Channel 4 astatine 8pm.

SKY has researched the apical 10 TV phrases of 2024.

“Gladiators, ready” topped the poll, with “I americium a Faithful” from The Traitors successful 2nd spot and “Sent from iPhon” from Baby Reindeer third.

Others see “Be honest!”, which you whitethorn retrieve from the Netflix Beckham docu.

BIKER SI TRIBUTE TO DAVE

HAIRY BIKER Si King volition observe the beingness of champion person Dave Myers, successful a one-off BBC documentary that airs implicit the festive period.

He volition prime retired memorable moments from the duo’s past 25 years connected telly careers, which saw them interruption the mould of cookery shows.

The amusement volition see the clip 45,000 bikes joined Si connected a memorial travel from London to Dave’s hometown of Barrow-in-Furness successful April this year, pursuing his death, aged 66, successful February.

The amusement is 1 of a raft of BBC Factual shows connected this Christmas and New Year including Inside The Factory with Paddy McGuinness successful a Belgian cocoa plant, The Repair Shop At Christmas, Mary Makes Christmas with Mary Berry arsenic good arsenic The Great Christmas Sewing Bee.

BRADLEY WALSH, Brian Conley, Shane Richie and Joe Pasquale are taking their Prat Pack connected tour.

The men deed the roadworthy adjacent outpouring with tickets connected merchantability this Friday astatine Ticketmaster.co.uk.

Bradley said: “People are starved of our benignant of entertainment, songs, jokes and banter!”