Actress Brenda Blethyn is set to hang up her hat as Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope as long-running ITV crime drama Vera draws to an end.
The hit show, which has run from 2011 with 14 series under its belt, will conclude with two feature-length episodes, titled Inside and The Dark Wives, which will air on ITV1 and STV at 8pm on Wednesday, January 1, and Thursday, January 2.
Filmed and set in the North East, the penultimate episode will see Vera called to the banks of the Tyne where the body of a young man has been discovered by some anglers.
A tangled web of a broken relationship, secret love, grudges, regret and fraud will then begin to emerge. The final episode will bring the DCI back to a familiar place when a body is found at the foot of the local stones, named The Dark Wives.
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