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Creator of Popular BBC Show Confirms It Will Be Ending After Its Third Series
James Graham said the third series will be the last, while the next run is due on BBC in January or February, he said.
- Creator James Graham confirmed on Thursday that the acclaimed BBC crime drama Sherwood will end after its upcoming third season, sharing the news on the debut episode of the podcast Backstory with Cathy Newman.
- Inspired by real-life 2004 miners' strikes and subsequent murders, the Nottinghamshire-set thriller premiered in 2022 with actors David Morrissey and Lesley Manville anchoring its narrative.
- Season 3 features returning actors Lorraine Ashbourne and Claire Rushbrook alongside newcomers Rosalie Craig and Joe Dempsie, with Graham teasing the new family faces "a brand new trauma" as he puts them "through the wringer."
- Graham plans to adapt his acclaimed West End and Broadway play Punch for television, exploring a fatal one-punch killing outside Yates's Wine Lodge and themes of masculinity and violence.
- The final chapter is expected on BBC One in early 2027, with Graham defending long-form television as essential, calling the assumption that younger audiences avoid it "a patronizing idea.
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The Independent (US)Beloved BBC crime drama to end after season 3, creator confirms
‘Shewrood’ is set to return for a third and final season at the beginning of next year
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