'The Fall' Season 3 Renewed or Canceled? BBC Renews Series, Cast Rumors Indicate Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan to Return
BBC renewed the third season run of the psychological crime drama television series "The Fall", according to reports. The series stars Gillian Anderson as a senior police detective who pursues a serial killer, played by Jamie Dornan.
Gillian Anderson is known for her role in the "X-files" TV series and more recently as Hannibal Lecter's psychotherapist in the series "Hannibal." Jamie Dornan comes back to the series fresh from his role as Christian Grey in the box-office hit "Fifty Shades of Grey."
The series is set in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Variety reported. Gillian Anderson's character is Metropolitan Police Superintendent Stella Gibson, who gets seconded to the Police Service of Northern Ireland in order to take over the investigation of a murder which has gone unsolved for more than 28 days.
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When the case turns out to be the doings of a serial killer, Gibson needs to work with the local police help hunt down the criminal who victimizes young professional women in Belfast.
Dornan on the other hand, plays the role of the serial killer Paul Spector. Spector is shown as a working family man and counselor who has a dark secret: he is a sadist who assaults women. Seasons 1 and 2 showed Gibson's pursuit of Spector, even after Spector moved his family to Scotland at the end of Season 1. The final episode of Season 2 shows the confrontation of Gibson and Spector.
Season 3 will have five more episodes of "the cat-and-mouse game between the two adversaries, further exploring the deeper themes exposed by the intimate story line," according to a report in Digital Trends.
The series was initially shown on the RTE network of Ireland and on BBC Two in 2013. International broadcast followed in the United States and other countries after Endemol Shine International sold the show to over 200 countries through different distribution channels such as Netflix. In the U.K., the series is said to be one of the more popular series in the BBC network.
No date has been set for the series premiere. The series is written and directed by Allan Cubitt.
