Shetland star Alison O'Donnell has opened up about the risky decision bosses made when making the eighth season of the hit BBC drama.
Following on from Douglas Henshall's exit as Jimmy Perez, it was announced that Ashley Jensen would be joining the cast as Met detective Ruth Calder.
The new officer returns to the Shetland Isles on the trail of a vulnerable witness and joins forces with Tosh, played by Alison.Shetland follows Ruth's return to the island after thirty years away following Ellen Quinn, who is the scared witness to a London gangland murder.
In Lerwick, Tosh pauses her investigation into a string of sinister animal deaths to help Calder find Ellen before it’s too late.Ellen’s family are the influential and notorious Bains, led by dominant matriarch, Grace.
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