Sue Johnston and Joe Dempsie join Sherwood cast as series three filming begins
Filming has begun on the award-winning drama Sherwood's third series, featuring new cast members such as Sue Johnston and Joe Dempsie, alongside returning stars.
Filming has begun on the newest series of the award-winning Sherwood.
The third series sees a mixture of new and returning cast with newcomers including Brookside legend Sue Johnston and Liverpool-born Joe Dempsie, as well as Rosalie Craig, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Peter Wight, Ben Batt and Adam Long.
Liverpool’s David Morrissey returns to the show, alongside Lorraine Ashbourne, Lesley Manville, Claire Rushbrook, Perry Fitzpatrick, Bill Jones, Robert Lindsay, Lindsay Duncan and Robert Glenister.
Sherwood series three plot
Hailed by critics as one of TV’s greatest dramas of recent years, Sherwood returns to the Nottinghamshire former mining community of Ashfield, following the dramatic conclusion of series two’s Branson and Sparrow family feud as Daphne Sparrow watched Ann Branson, the matriarch of her criminal family, disappear into the depths of the reservoir.
Six months on, the third series of Sherwood sees a new family at its heart. The Wood family is the picture of working-class respectability – pillars of the community, volunteers at the local church, with Zoe Wood (Craig), in particular, a passionate campaigner on behalf of her town.
Husband Alex Wood (Dempsie) is overseeing construction of the new Gotham housing estate which is being built in the shadows of Sherwood Forest, and where they live with their kids and Zoe’s parents, Irene and Eric Bostall (Johnston and Wight), as the estate’s first residents.
Meanwhile, DI Zara Gill (Howell-Baptiste) is leading the operation into identifying the numerous human remains that were found in the reservoir during the recovery operation following Ann’s drowning. The trail leads to several missing people linked to the Bransons' criminal activities but one specific discovery unexpectedly leads back to the Bostall family.
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Forty years after he first went missing, the body of Arthur Bostall is unearthed from Nottingham’s ancient caves, and a series of unnerving questions begins to arise over who killed him and why. As the Wood and Bostall families find themselves being forced to look back into the past, events in the present conspire to uncover more buried secrets for the family and the wider community alike.
How to watch Sherwood series three
Sherwood is being created for BBC iPlayer and BBC One. A release date has not yet been revealed.