Telemystery: ITV Announces Cast for Third and Final Season of Broadchurch

ITV has announced new cast members for the third and final season of the crime drama Broadchurch.

David Tennant and Olivia Colman will reprise their roles as DI Alec Hardy and DS Ellie Miller with Jodie Whittaker and Andrew Buchan returning to play Beth and Mark Latimer. Arthur Darvill also returns as local Vicar Paul Coates, Carolyn Pickles as newspaper editor Maggie Radcliffe and Adam Wilson as Ellie's son Tom.

They will be joined by Julie Hesmondhalgh, Georgina Campbell along with Sarah Parish, Charlie Higson and Mark Bazeley who take significant roles in the eight-episode season, which will feature a new case for Miller and Hardy with the detectives reuniting to investigate a serious sexual assault.

"This is the final chapter of Broadchurch," said Chris Chibnall, executive producer of the series. "We have one last story to tell, featuring both familiar faces and new characters. I hope it's a compelling and emotional farewell to a world and show that means so much to me."

Filming will begin in Dorset this summer in Bridport, West Bay and Clevedon, which have featured as locations in the first two seasons.