BAFTA TV Awards: Blue Lights' Siân Brooke reveals which show detail is 'another level' and teases series 3

Virgin Radio

13 May 2024, 11:28

Blue Lights star Siân Brooke has opened up about the show’s “other level” details and its future third series.

Speaking exclusively with virginradio.co.uk on the BAFTA TV Awards red carpet, the Constable Grace Ellis actress shared she couldn’t really “say anything” about the show’s next series without getting “in a whole heap of trouble.” However, carefully the star did say: “It’s exciting what they’ve got planned.”

Discussing her own role in the show - which released its second series in April 2024 - she added: “For the BBC to commission two series [after series two], it just doesn’t happen very often. So it’s a wonderful sort of- it gives you a sense of confidence in what you’ve done.

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“To be able to have that longevity, that arc of the character that you’re playing [is great] - as long as they don’t kill me off!” she joked. Brooke also praised Blue Lights’ writers Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson, sharing: “They’re phenomenal writers. I’m in great hands…. They know what they’re doing!

“It’s such an amazing team,” the Sherlock actress added thinking about the show’s whole crew. “It’s quite special in that - I don’t want to say the cliche thing of it being like a family - but it genuinely is!”

She continued: “It’s in the script, that friendship… when you’re doing job that has loads of a grave responsibilities, there is a level of humour in that to sort of keep your sanity.”

Another thing which comes with playing this role are the uniforms, which Brooke shared brought the production to “another level”.

“They’re heavy and sweaty and very cumbersome, and if you run, things just fly off,” she explained. “I remember speaking to a police officer and saying ‘What do you do when you’re running?’ And he said: ‘Oh you just let them go. You just leave notebooks and this and that when you’re running trying to catch somebody else!’

“But I have got used to it,” she added. “But the riot gear, that’s another level!”

Last night (12th May)’s BAFTA TV Awards celebrated a stellar year in UK and global TV. Highlights of the show included Happy Valley’s Sarah Lancashire tearfully accepting her Best Actress award after the show’s final series aired last year, comedian Joe Lycett’s hilarious acceptance speech which he made while dressed as Elizabeth I, and the slightly awkward moment when hosts Rob and Romesh had to receive an award themselves.

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