BritBox announced today that David Tennant and Siobhan Finneran will lead the cast of the third season of the BAFTA Award-winning prison drama, Time.
Created by multi-award winner Jimmy McGovern (Unforgivable, Cracker, The Street), Season 3 of the gripping anthology prison drama stars David Tennant (Rivals, Broadchurch) as Prison Officer Bailey and Siobhan Finneran (Happy Valley, Downton Abbey), who reprises her role as prison chaplain Marie-Louise.
Set in a young offenders’ institution (YOI), the third season explores the impact of locking up teenagers and the effects on those who look after them.
Having lost her faith, prison chaplain Marie-Louise comes to the YOI. When tragedy strikes within the prison, she clashes with veteran officer Bailey, a man in the midst of his own crisis. Bailey knows more about the circumstances that led to this major incident, but will he come clean before the guilt gets too much?
Meanwhile, young offenders Peter and James struggle through the terrifying first weeks and months of their incarceration. Can James ever face his broken parents after an unforgivable act of violence? And will Peter tell the truth about the death of an innocent man, or does family loyalty mean more? An unlikely friendship between the two teens looks to shift the trajectory of their futures.
A production of BBC Studios Fiction for BBC iPlayer and BBC One, co-produced by BritBox for North America with support from Northern Ireland Screen, the three-part third season is written by Jimmy McGovern and Samuel Bailey (Shook), directed by Paul Whittington (This Town, The Crown), and produced by Amanda Black (Blue Lights, World on Fire). The executive producers are Josh Cole, Andrew Morrissey, and Michael Parke for BBC Studios Fiction, Lucy Richer for the BBC, Jon Farrar and Jess O’Riordan for BritBox, and Jimmy McGovern. BBC Studios is handling global sales.
Filming will take place in Belfast. Stay tuned for updates.
In the meantime, head to BritBox and check out Season 1 of Time, which is set in a men’s prison and stars Sean Bean and Stephen Graham, and Season 2, set in a women’s prison and starring Jodie Whittaker, Tamara Lawrance, and Bella Ramsey.
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