Joanna Scanlan

With the imminent arrival of her sister, Ma is cleaning like a demon. Bertha and her family are firm suburbanites who despise the countryside and in particular dirt and animals. Things aren't going very well between Mariette and Charley, so Tom makes his move. Meanwhile, Tom's plans for Bluff Court are speeding ahead, and Ma and Bertha do some speeding of their own in a not-so-sisterly road race.

It's strawberry picking season, and despite being left to the wiles of Pauline, Lil, and Pol, Charley enjoys himself, even though he is dispirited to see Tom make his move on Mariette. Determined to stay in the running, Charley decides to resign from the tax office. Meanwhile, Pop learns the train station will be closed down and sets about trying to save it.

Worried that Pop is working too hard, Ma books a weekend in Margate. Charley and Mariette are left to mind the kids and sort out the new TV aerial. Meantime, Tom Fisher is making his move and asks Mariette on a date, much to Charley's chagrin. Margate is a bit of a letdown, but Ma and Pop try to make the best of it, despite an incident with Ma's new tangerine swimsuit.

Based on a stranger than fiction true story, this ferociously funny mystery follows two neighbors: deeply conservative Edith Swan and foul-mouthed Rose Gooding. When Edith begins to receive wicked letters full of hilarious profanities, Rose is charged with the crime. However, as the towns women begin to investigate themselves, they suspect that something is amiss.

Johanna Morrigan is a bright, quirky, sixteen-year-old who uses her colorful imagination to regularly escape her humdrum life in Wolverhampton and live out her creative fantasies. Desperate to break free from the overcrowded flat she shares with her four brothers and eccentric parents, she submits an earnestly penned and off-beat music review to a group of self-important indie rock critics at a weekly magazine.

Deering and the team have only one option left to them. They put a spectacular plan in motion to get justice once and for all. But the team's ingenious strategy is threatened when one of their own is kidnapped.

A mayoral debate goes tragically awry when a deadly shooter enters the building. Viv and the team must race to catch the killer and try to understand what motivates his attempted assassination of an underdog mayoral candidate.

Deering and the team have a new boss, DCI Taylor, who is implementing a new hardline agenda. While avoiding Taylor's interference, the team focus on trying to engineer a face-to-face meeting with Beckett. But will it end in more tragedy?