Sam, 41, is perhaps best known for his portrayal of rower Dickie Burnell, alongside Matt Smith, in BBC One Olympic drama Bert and Dickie. Instead, actor Sam Hoare will play Roy Grace’s nemesis, who replaces Rakie Ayola’s character ACC Vosper (see below).

He is known for previously appearing in series such as Miss Scarlet and the Duke, The Capture, Showtrial, Death in Paradise and Outlander. Actor Simm has teased Sandy will be causing "havoc" in the new series of the crime drama as her spectre looms large. John Simm leads the cast once again as Roy Grace, while Richie Campbell is back as his partner Glenn Branson. Also in the frame was a rogue’s gallery of sex pests, the sort of roles actors love inhabiting as they get to show their moves. And finally, we end with Nicholas Tizzard who has appeared in more than 20 roles in his career with notable credits coming in the likes of Grange Hill, Casualty, Mike Bassett: Manager, Doctors and Doc Martin.Other notable roles include Sebastus in Plebs, James Robinson in Dark Angel, Alan Reynott in McMafia, and Gabriel in Knightfall. It’s not only the routine storyboard of every second crime drama, it’s also always in the news, when the perpetrators sometimes turn out to be in uniform. In this viewer it simply triggered suppressed memories of Downton Abbey when Lady Edith’s chap was condemned to an identical fate because, at a guess, the actor had better things to do with his time.

Joanna Brooks will be Maggie and has has small roles in The Gold, Criminal, Taking the Flak, Cheat, The Winsdors and Coronation Street. At the site of a tragic road traffic collision an unexpected discovery suggests more to the case than meets the eye. TV viewers will also know Zoe for portraying Anya Raczynski in Survivors, Mina Harker in Demons, Ellen Love in Mr Selfridge, and Betsey Granger in Grantchester.Has a sinister offender from Grace’s past dubbed the Brighton Prowler resurfaced or is this a copycat? You worry that the saintly Grace is a bit too stolid for Simm, who in his youth embodied many a zippy livewire.

When more women are assaulted, Grace becomes increasingly certain that they are dealing with the same man. Meanwhile, Rakie Ayola is at least back in some capacity as ACC Alison Vosper, after she announced that she'd been appointed to a new role at the Met in London at the end of season 2, although how big her role is remains to be seen. DS Branston is a bright and ambitious police officer who has progressed quickly through the ranks of the force. Fans of the film Anuvahood will know Richie, 41, for his role as local bully Tyrone, a role he will soon reprise in the sequel Sumotherhood. Rakie Ayola reprises her role as Alison Vosper, whose leaving do will be disrupted by a sinister event as all is thrown into chaos.

Following strong viewing figures for the opening episode, a second series of three films was then commissioned in 2021, with broadcasting beginning in May 2022. Matters take a dark turn when a chilling event forces Grace and Branson into an impossible position as they must investigate every guest, including several high-ranking attendees from East Sussex police. Subsequently, when the first series aired in the United States, it meant that Looking Good Dead was available to stream for more than a year before its British broadcast. The second series adapts the next three novels in the Grace series, Not Dead Enough, Dead Man's Footsteps and Dead Tomorrow.

When more women are assaulted, Grace and his team find themselves in a desperate race against the clock to identify and save the life of the new sixth victim .Thank heavens for the upstanding DI Roy Grace ( John Simm) and his squeaky-clean cohort of slightly plastic colleagues who explain things to one another in overt and presentational dialogue. Simm is probably best known for playing the Master in Doctor Who, and detective Sam Tyler in the acclaimed Life on Mars.