Brenda Blethyn returns to ITV in January as the unorthodox but brilliantly perceptive DCI Vera Stanhope, investigating more chilling crimes in four feature-length films produced by Silverprint Pictures, part of ITV Studios. Once again based on the books by Ann Cleeves, Vera Series 8 takes viewers to the Northeast countryside.
Vera Series 8 Cast
Series eight is produced by Letitia Knight and directed by Paul Gay. With more than eight million viewers for season 7, the new series set in Northumberland returns to engage the audiences at a time when Ann Cleeves latest book The Seagull is racing up the charts.
Vera Series 8 (2018)
Developed By: Phil Hunter, Letitia Knight
Cast: Brenda Blethyn, Kenny Doughty, Jon Morrison, Ibinabo Jack, Kingsley Ben-Adir and Riley Jones
Network: itv
Air Date: 7th January 2018, 8 PM
Vera Series 8 Plot
Set around Newcastle and the stunning Northumberland countryside, Vera features complex and intriguing cases, atmospherically-shot landscapes and captivating performances.
In Vera series 8, Vera and her team are drawn into four more compelling cases; the body of a police officer discovered in an abattoir incinerator, a mysterious car crash, a suburban back-garden murder and the circumstances that led to the death of a teenage boy.
In the first episode, DCI Vera Stanhope (Brenda Blethyn) is called to a chilling murder scene when the charred remains of a body are discovered in an abattoir incinerator. With limited forensic evidence, she is disturbed to identify the body as DC Harry Fenton, a respected police officer from the Northumberland & City Fraud Unit.
A club man, Vera and Aiden (Kenny Doughty) meet Harry’s grieving family and friends in a tightly-knit fishing community who are shocked to learn of the devastating murder. Vera looks to Harry’s fraud team to try and find answers, but she begins to sense that all is not what it seems. One of Harry’s former colleagues continues to rub Vera up the wrong way by poking her nose into the investigation. Whereas DC Jac Williams (Ibinabo Jack) gives Vera a useful tip off. And then one of Harry’s old fraud cases begins to cross over into Vera’s enquiries.
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