New police drama. 6 episodes. Shown weekly. Sure all will be on iPlayer (blondes yawns and sighs) but this will be tv paced and weekly and no bingeing !!!
Blue Lights on BBC1 follows three rookie cops trying to fight crime and navigate the tricky politics of Belfast.
Blue Lights follows Grace, played by Siân Brooke, who is mum to a teenage boy. In her 40s, she’s decided to leave her stable job as a social worker to join the police force.
It’s the biggest gamble of her life, especially as she finds herself making countless mistakes in her first few weeks on the job. Joining her are fellow rookies Annie (Katherine Devlin), who must leave behind everything she’s ever known to follow her dream, and Tommy (Nathan Braniff) who is desperate to prove himself despite being seriously inept when it comes to frontline policing.
The odds are at least one of them will fail the probation period and, to make matters worse, just being a cop in Belfast is a dangerous business.
Siân Brooke, Katherine Devlin, and Nathan Braniff as new recruits to the police force. All three are in the probation period with the PSNI, the Police Service of Northern Ireland, and must deal with immense pressure in order to make it. Added to that, they must navigate the complexities of being police officers in Belfast, which means they sometimes have to hide their true selves from those closest to them.
The trio must work out whom they can trust and who wants them dead simply because of the uniform they are wearing. "I am so thrilled to be playing Grace in Blue Lights," says Siân Brooke. "There is something incredibly special about the scripts and I was hooked from the very first page. Belfast is the beating heart of this piece and it’s a city I’ve been wanting to work in for a long time."