Television

Martin Shaw is to return for four new, feature-length George Gently dramas, the BBC announced yesterday. The first two of the new films will air in May and sees the show renamed as Inspector George Gently. Returning alongside Shaw is Lee Ingleby as the ambitious and undisciplined Detective Sergeant John Bacchus.

With appetites whetted by the glossy trailer currently airing on BBC One, fans of the channel’s Ashes To Ashes are eagerly anticipating the return of DCI Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister) and DI Alex Drake (Keeley Hawes).

There are some new faces when ITV’s hit adventure series Primeval returns later this month for a ten-part third series. Joining the team are maverick policeman Danny Quinn (Jason Flemyng), Egyptologist Sarah Page (Laila Rouass) and Captain Becker (Ben Mansfield), leader of the ARC’s security forces.

The do-gooding conmen of Hustle will return for a sixth series in 2010, the BBC has confirmed. The series stars Adrian Lester as Mickey “Bricks” Stone, s Robert Vaughn, as veteran grifter Albert Stroller, and Robert Glenister, as fixer extraordinaire Ash “Three Socks” Morgan.

With Echo Beach now history, the production team from Moving Wallpaper are back to face a new challenge to come up with a hit show for ITV.

ITV has confirmed the return of Anthony Horowitz’s Foyle’s War. The drama, which stars Michael Kitchen, will return with three new style episodes set in the period after VE Day.