“Happy Valley” Due Back for New Year’s

It’s been a year since BBC One announced that the BAFTA Award-winning crime drama Happy Valley would be given a third and final season. And only now comes word, via The Killing Times, that this show will return to TV screens—at least in Britain—on January 1, 2023.

“In this final series of six episodes,” explains editor Paul Hirons, Police Sergeant Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire) “discovers the remains of a gangland murder victim in a drained reservoir, and this sparks a chain of events that leads her straight back to Tommy Lee Royce (James Norton). Her grandson, Ryan (Rhys Connah), is now 16 and has ideas of his own about the kind of relationship he wants to have with the man Catherine refuses to acknowledge as his father, leaving Catherine’s sister Clare (Siobhan Finneran) caught in the middle. In another part of [Calder Valley, West Yorkshire], a local pharmacist gets in over his head when a neighbour is arrested.”

Almost seven years have passed since Season 2 of Happy Valley debuted in the UK. There’s no word yet on when Netflix—which carried this series before—might make new episodes available to U.S. fans.

READ MORE: “Happy Valley Returns to the BBC for Season Three,” by Garrick Webster (Crime Fiction Lover).