Vera S14
Published
Renowned film, theatre, and television actress Brenda Blethyn OBE makes an emotional return for the fourteenth and final series of ITV's popular crime drama series Vera.
Spanning two epic feature-length episodes, these new stories, entitled Inside and The Dark Wives, intertwine gripping murder mysteries with the heartfelt narrative of Vera’s personal journey.
Filmed in and around the North East, the strong ensemble cast reunited with Brenda includes David Leon as DI Joe Ashworth, Jon Morrison as DC Kenny Lockhart, Riley Jones as DC Mark Edwards, Sarah Kameela Impey as Pathologist Dr Paula Bennett, and Rhiannon Clements as DC Steph Duncan. In the first episode, DCI Vera Stanhope (Brenda Blethyn) is called to the banks of the Tyne, where the body of a young man has been discovered by some anglers. A tangled web of a broken relationship, secret love, grudges, regret, and fraud begins to emerge. Has our former inmate been served cold justice, or does his death run deeper?
The final episode brings Vera back to a familiar place when a body is found at the foot of the legendary local stones, ‘The Dark Wives’. With memories of childhood in the background, Vera must work hard to uncover the mystery of why a bright young student would be violently attacked and left so far from home. This poignant episode weaves together past and present, making for a compelling and emotional farewell.
Produced by Will Nicholson on behalf of Silverprint Pictures for ITV, these two feature-length episodes have been directed by Claire Winyard and Paul Gay. Both episodes have been written by series regular Phil Mulryne with the final episode adapted from Ann Cleeves' latest novel, The Dark Wives, published in the autumn of 2024.
Silverprint Pictures Creative Director Kate Bartlett is the executive producer. Vera is produced in association with ITV studios, which distributes Vera internationally. Silverprint Pictures is an ITV Studios company. Overseeing production on behalf of ITV is Drama Commissioner Huw Kennair-Jones.
Series 1-13 is available on ITVX.
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