Detective Inspector Ruth Calder will lead the present for a brand new six-week run. 

With Douglas Henshall’s Jimmy Perez leaving the present it’s all change for the Scottish crime drama.

For Shetland sequence 8, Ashley Jensen (Disaster, After Life) takes over as the brand new lead DI Ruth Calder. Whereas she works for the Met, it seems that Calder has a sophisticated historical past with the Islands…

Right here’s the synopsis:

Initially based mostly on award-winning novels by crime author Ann Cleeves, the brand new sequence sees Met Police Detective Inspector Ruth Calder (Ashley Jensen), return to her native Shetland to retrieve the susceptible witness to a gangland homicide. Tosh (Alison O’Donnell) should pause her investigation right into a string of mysterious animal deaths to assist Calder discover the witness earlier than it’s too late.

Nonetheless, Calder’s hostility to Shetland will problem Tosh’s view of her adopted residence, and their journey into the darker recesses of Shetland’s previous and current will take a look at this fragile new partnership.

Becoming a member of Ashley Jensen and Alison O’Donnell, the returning forged of Shetland are Steven Robertson (DC Sandy Wilson), Lewis Howden (Sgt Billy McCabe), Anne Kidd (Cora McLean), Angus Miller (Donnie), Conor McCarry (PC Alex Grant) and Eubha Akilade (PC Lorna Burns).

The visitor forged are Phyllis Logan, Jamie Sives, Daybreak Steele, Don Gilet, Ann Louise Ross and Lorraine McIntosh.

The sequence 8 writers are Paul Logue, with Denise Paul and Vivienne Harvey. The producer is Louise V Say, the administrators are Andy Newbery and Giulia Gandini. Government Producers are Gaynor Holmes for the BBC, Kate Bartlett and Denise Paul for Silverprint Photos (a part of ITV Studios).

Shetland sequence 8 involves BBC One and BBC iPlayer on Wednesday, 1st November 2023.

Sequence 1 – 7 can be found to stream on iPlayer.