TIME: FIRST LOOK AT DAVID TENNANT AND SIOBHAN FINNERAN IN THIRD SERIES OF JIMMY McGOVERN DRAMA

The third series of the BAFTA-winning hit drama Time, written by multi-award-winning screenwriter Jimmy McGovern (Unforgivable, Cracker, The Street) and Samuel Bailey (Shook). Set in a Young Offenders Institution, the series will explore the impact of locking up teenagers and the effects on those who look after them. 

The new pictures feature David Tennant as Bobby Bailey, a Custodial Manager at the YOI, Siobhan Finneran reprising her role as chaplain Marie-Louise O’Dell, Daniel Ryan as Freddie Jennings, a Custodial Manager at the YOI, Jo Joyner as Nicola, Vinette Robinson as Erica, Louis McCartney as James, Ollie McNulty as Peter and Chukwubuikem Molokwu as Christopher. 

Prison Chaplain Marie-Louise comes to the YOI having lost her faith. When tragedy strikes in the prison, Marie-Louise clashes with veteran officer Bailey, a man in the midst of his own crisis. Bailey knows more about the circumstances that led to this major incident – but will he come clean before the guilt gets too much? 

Meanwhile, two teenage young offenders, Peter and James, struggle through the terrifying first weeks and months of their incarceration. Can James ever face his broken parents after an unforgivable act of violence and will Peter tell the truth about the death of an innocent man, or does family loyalty mean more?

An unlikely friendship between them looks to shift the trajectory of their futures, but in an increasingly unstable environment, is change ever possible?  

The series is coming to BBC iPlayer and BBC One later this year with transmission details announced in due course.