Those of you paying attention will have notice that there was no Scott and Bailey on last week. To compensate for this, ITV are giving us a double bill that starts tonight and concludes tomorrow. Last time we saw our favourite female coppers, Janet was just about to burst in on Rachel and Kevin who were in throws of passion. However this doesn’t last very long, as Janet’s presence sort of puts a spanner in the works.

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As Janet discovers Rachel and Kevin in bed together, she is incredibly angry and tells them both to leave. In her drunken state, Rachel is unable to comprehend how furious her friend is. She’s also unprepared for the fact that Kevin thinks their liaison is the start of a brand new relationship. But for Sean, the revelation of this one night stand is the final straw and he finds himself unable to control his anger when he comes face to face with Kevin.

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I think it’s fair to say that the last two episodes of Scott and Bailey have been fairly intense, thanks mainly to the inclusion of a story about seven bodies buried under the cellar in a family home. After a case a shocking as that you would think that our titular heroines may take a week off from controversial crimes but this isn’t the case. Instead they’re not resting on their laurels as they investigate the suspicious death of a man who was a resident at the Willow Vale Care Home.

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In the latest episode, Rachel continues to stay at Janet’s house. Whilst Janet’s mother Dorothy is very disapproving on the influence that Rachel is having on Taisie, Janet’s happy that she’s able to keep Rachel out of trouble. But Rachel’s self-destruct button is never far away and it’s not long before Taisie witnesses Rachel’s fall grom grace.

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After last week’s thrilling build-up, this episode of Scott and Bailey deals with the conclusion of the bodies under the Bevan house story. I have to say my expectations were high going into this episode, mainly because Sally Wainwright had done such a good job making me interested in the first part of the story. But I felt, to an extent, these expectations weren’t met primarily because the final revelation came out of nowhere.

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In the concluding instalment of this thrilling two-parter, Gill and Dodson’s teams are faced with the mammoth task of identifying the remains of several bodies that have been found in the Bevan house. More difficult still is trying to piece together the order in which they were killed.

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Despite being a massive fan of Scott and Bailey, even I have to admit that this series has been fairly inconsistent. I didn’t really enjoy the non-linear structure of episode two or how some of the police investigations have felt fairly lacklustre. However this week’s instalment, the first of a two-parter, was by and far the best episode of the series as it set up one of the show’s most interesting investigations.

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In the first of a shocking two-parter, Helen Bartlett turns up on Janet’s doorstep and tells her that her brother Michael may be buried in the cellar of the family home. The reason for Helen’s admission is that she thinks she helped to bury him.

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Since this third series of Scott and Bailey began, I have been critical of the way it has jumped forwards and backwards in time. Thankfully this third episode is the first to stay in the present day as the pair’s personal issues are combined with a fairly in-depth murder investigation.

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In this week’s Scott and Bailey, our two detectives investigate the murder of a man that has all the signs. Meanwhile, as Rachel’s infidelity almost catches her out, Janet asks her mother to move in with her.

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In my previous review of Scott and Bailey, I commented on how jarring it was that the events of the first episode jumped one year from the events of series two. Luckily this second instalment flashes back a year to show us what happened after Rachel discovered that her brother Dom had killed Nick Savage. This episode also explains why Rachel married Sean and how Janet’s marriage to Ade finally ended.

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I personally find that some dramas can create believability purely based on the chemistry between the lead cast members. ITV’s police drama Scott and Bailey is definitely one of those programmes due to the great interaction between central actresses Lesley Sharp and Suranne Jones. Now in its third series, Scott and Bailey combines well-written mysteries with realistic storylines involving our titular detectives. In the last series we saw Sharp’s Janet Scott separate from her husband while Jones’ Rachel Bailey finally decided to get in contact with her mother. Oddly this first episode sets events six months in the future, with both Janet and Rachel experiencing difficulty in their personal lives while they attempt to solve a very puzzling mystery.

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Former Emmerdale actor, and current star of the supernatural thriller Lightfields, Danny Miller, has revealed in the build-up to his next big role in ITV detective series, Scott & Bailey, that he is planning on staying single for a while – 5 years to be precise!

Fans of Emmerdale will know that Danny won a string of awards, including a few for Best Actor, after his emotional and haunting portrayal of gay mechanic, Aaron Livesy, in the hit ITV soap, most notably for his dramatic and heart-wrenching storyline where his character aided the suicide of his tetraplegic boyfriend, Jackson Walsh (Marc Silcock).
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In what is being described as a “huge blow” to ITV, Laura Mackie and Sally Haynes, the drama executives behind the global sensation Downton Abbey, have quit the show to set up their own independent production company!

Mackie, the director of drama at ITV, and Haynes, controller of drama commissioning, revealed their decision yesterday leaving ITV “in a state of shock” according to the Independent newspaper.
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Former Emmerdale actor, Danny Miller, has joined the cast of Scott & Bailey, Digital Spy reports.

Miller, who fans of Emmerdale will know best for his award-winning portrayal of Aaron Livesy in the hit ITV soap from 2008 – 2012, has been cast as a new regular character, Rob Waddington in the highly popular detective show.
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