ITV renews Unforgotten for fifth season

Nicola Walker and Sanjeev Bhaskar in Unforgotten

NEWS BRIEF: UK commercial broadcaster ITV has renewed its crime series Unforgotten for a fifth season.

Produced by former ITV drama chiefs Sally Haynes and Laura Mackie, via their Twofour-backed Mainstreet Pictures, the new season will see a new actor replace Nicola Walker opposite Sanjeev Bhaskar as cold case investigators. BBC Studios holds global distribution rights.