Set in the mining village where Graham grew up, the contemporary series will follow a fractured community rocked by two shocking murders.
Inspired by real events, the rife suspicion around the tragic murders threatens to aggravate historic divisions that have existed between families since the Miners’ Strike in the 80s.
The announcement via Twitter teased the bumper upcoming series, with Martin Compston’s character DS Steve Arnott asking his gaffer, Superintendent Ted Hastings (Adrian Dunbar), for an extra episode.
The six-part series, written by Harry and Jack Williams, will chart one man’s search for his identity in the vast expansive plains of the Australian outback.
Jamie Dornan (The Fall) will lead the series as a British man who finds himself being followed on the dust tracks of the Australian outback by a tank truck attempting to force him off the road.
It has also been confirmed that the series will be the drama’s last, although creator and writer, Steven Knight, has hinted at a spin-off: “While the TV series will be coming to an end, the story will continue in another form.”
The story of Tommy Shelby and his notorious family’s rise to power in post-First World War Birmingham has grown to become an international phenomenon since it first aired in 2013.
Series two offers six new episodes of the “will they, won’t they” drama, in which Welsh cop Miranda Blake (Elen Rhys) and German colleague Max Winter (Julian Looman) spar and solve crime on the Spanish island.
Banter merchant Paddy McGuinness gets everyone’s big New Year’s in underway with a one-hour, star-studded live show of fun, music, games and surprises.
Also on the cards is a hilarious quiz of 2020, inviting us to play along and test our memories of the long, dramatic year gone by.
Academy Award-winning actor Christopher Walken (The Deer Hunter) will be making his leading British television debut as Frank, a long-established swindler undertaking community service in Bristol.
The Offenders follows seven strangers from vastly different backgrounds, who come together as part of Community Payback sentence in Bristol. As they grow to become more involved in each other’s lives, they also accidentally become entwined with a hardened criminal gang.
The night begins at 9pm with The Big New Year’s In hosted by Paddy McGuinness.
Celebrity guests will join McGuinness in a live show of music, games, surprises and a hilarious quiz of the year.
Graham Norton will then continue the countdown with his traditional end of year talk show, joined by Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan, Tom Hanks, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Jessica Chastain, Nish Kumar, and with music from Sophie Ellis Bextor.
Rashford has previously spoken about his own experiences of child food poverty and the sacrifices he and his family faced while he was growing up.
The Premier League striker will learn about how child food poverty affects millions of children across the UK and how COVID-19 has exacerbated the issue.
Cameras will uncover the obstacles and successes Rashford has gone through to try and eradicate child food poverty in the UK permanently, including the pressure his campaign put on the UK Government to offer support to over 1.7 million children.
Featuring an original score from composer Ilan Eshkeri, the prequel introduces the forces of nature supporting life on Earth that the series will explore.
Eshkeri said: “Composing the music for A Perfect Planet has also been enormously challenging - not least because of the unprecedented logistical issues of trying to record an orchestra during the lockdown!
“I’m grateful to everyone at the BBC and Silverback who supported me and the ideas I threw at them and I hope my music can play a small part in helping to inspire change.”
