Unforgotten renewed for fifth run after dramatic season finale
*Contains spoilers for Unforgotten season four*
ITV has confirmed that Unforgotten will return for a fifth series – one day after the fourth run ended in extremely dramatic circumstances.
The series finale saw Cassie Stuart (Nicole Walker) tragically die after a hit and run incident in the previous episode, and DI Sunny Khan (Sanjeev Bhaskar) is now set to be joined by a new 'Partner in Crime' for the next run.
Paying tribute to Cassie, the channel wrote, "ITV would like to thank Nicola Walker for playing the brilliant role of Cassie Stuart in four series of Unforgotten, which has become one of the best-loved and most critically acclaimed police dramas on TV.
"Nicola and writer Chris Lang decided that Cassie's story would come to an end last night, but that Unforgotten would continue, in series five, with a new case, and a new 'Partner in Crime' for DI Sunny Khan."
Meanwhile, according to ITV, the recently concluded season was the highest performing to date, with an average of 7.5 million viewers tuning in to the first five episodes, marking a 26 per cent viewership increase from last time out.
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Even before Cassie's death, this had been a particularly dramatic outing for the drama, with the unsolved crime at the season's centre involving headless remains found in a London scrapyard – and each of the suspects having once been newly qualified coppers.
It remains to be seen who will be replacing Walker as a new lead alongside Bhaskar, but whoever it is will be hoping to meet a less sticky end than their predecessor...
You can read our Unforgotten season four ending explainer to learn more about what happened in the finale, including the reveal of who killed Matthew Walsh.
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Patrick Cremona is the Senior Film Writer at Radio Times, and looks after all the latest film releases both in cinemas and on streaming. He has been with the website since October 2019, and in that time has interviewed a host of big name stars and reviewed a diverse range of movies.
