Pérez and Tosh's investigation leads them to Glasgow, where they hope to uncover the truth behind Maguire's brutal death and his connection to Robbie Morton. Old ghosts return to haunt Pérez, with his enemies trying to prevent him from getting to the truth. In 10 years of filming inShetlandI've never seen it so lovely. The sun was out and it was warm and the beaches there are so beautiful...also there's a softplay now! So, life is complete. special effects floor supervisor: SFX GB Ltd / special effects floor supervisor (4 episodes, 2021-2022) And then there’s the weather! One minute we had this horizontal rain and the next, a heatwave and it was like the tropics and everyone was going wild swimming. I felt like I was on my holidays.

These are all people that I’ve watched on the television for years and always admired. In fact, I met Phyllis many moons ago because she played my mum in Nativity. She’s just such a legend and what a character Grace Bain is! She plays these strong, steely parts and yet she’s incredibly warm and funny. Just to be up close and personal to all these people and having a laugh with them was great. It really was wonderful. It was an incredibly unified cast I have to say. People hear actors wittering on “oh we all got on so well, we were one big happy family but we absolutely, genuinely did. Where is Shetland filmed? Find out more about the detective drama's location". TV BT. 5 February 2019. Canada: The series is broadcast on British Columbia's Knowledge Network [35] and streamed on Netflix. [36] Like any close relationship with someone you have to work alongside intensely, there are moments when it flows and moments when it doesn't but they are both fiercely committed to their work, they always have that in common, and it is this dogged pursuit of truth and justice that is the engine that drives them as a team. Over the last 10 years, we’ve seen Tosh change from the chocolate vodka hungover new recruit to the temporary DI in charge…what’s that been like for you?

English, Paul (2 March 2013). "Scottish actor Douglas Henshall on the perks of filming new BBC crime drama Shetland.. in & around Glasgow". Daily Record. Glasgow . Retrieved 2 April 2017. We all have a WhatsApp group together and keep in touch and I imagine there will be lots of fun messages when the show airs. A scientist is found dead in the bird observatory on Fair Isle, Pérez's childhood home, so Pérez and Tosh make their way across to the island, where they are greeted by Pérez's father – just before flights are grounded by incoming storms. Working alone and without a forensic team, the detectives talk to the victim's friends, family, and colleagues – and as tensions run high, the storm forces Pérez and the suspects to remain together under a single roof.

I would say that Phyllis, Dawn and Lorraine really brought everyone together. They are wonderful, charismatic, generous women who really led the way with their performances and their professionalism. Sometimes it was hard to concentrate during the scenes because watching them perform was so distracting, like being in the front row of a hit show. I feel that Shetland is as much a character as the drama itself. Shetland is one of those places that I never, ever thought I would go or get a chance to work there. It was such a privilege to be there and rendered me speechless when I stepped off that wee plane the first time. There were Shetland ponies and puffins – it’s got its own identity which is quite exhilarating actually. a b c Griffiths, Rosalind (9 April 2015). "Street closed for television crime series filming". The Shetland Times . Retrieved 9 April 2015. It’s clear from the off, Calder has no love for Tosh’s adopted home and their journey into the dark recesses of Shetland's past and present will test their partnership to the limit. A journalist dies in a suspicious car accident, and when it turns out he was an old friend of Pérez's, a forensic scientist is called in to ensure an objective view of the case. As the team awaits her results, they look into the reasons for the victim's return to the island and find he was chasing a lead about plans for a controversial new gas pipeline.

Also starring are Alison O'Donnell as DS Alison "Tosh" McIntosh and Steven Robertson as DC Sandy Wilson. Lewis Howden and Anne Kidd are also principal members of the cast. I think the pace of Shetland is an issue for Calder because it’s much slower than London and the urban policing she’s used to. Ruth’s a little bit of a lone wolf, she often dances to her own beat. additional location assistant / assistant location manager / location assistant (13 episodes, 2013-2018) British Academy Scotland Awards: Winners in 2015". www.bafta.org. 15 November 2015 . Retrieved 9 July 2018.

I loved it actually but to be honest as soon as I read the first scripts I was like “I’m in!”. The writer [Paul Logue] has given everybody a rounded character even down to the hitmen, Howell [Don Gilét] and Nowak [Arnas Fedaravičius]. Just the nuance and the detail of every character is amazing.Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. Tosh [Alison O’Donnell] is just as professional as Calder but needs to find her own way to navigate a new working relationship - ultimately they respect one another. They don’t treat each other with caution, I think that it’s just literally two different approaches to police work coming together but there is an element of good cop, bad cop. Sometimes, the more serious the job, the more you laugh. Life’s too short not to have a laugh. To me, that’s part of the joy of what we do. Filming began in April 2015 for a third series, which began screening in January 2016. [10] This series saw a change in format; with all six episodes covering a single story, written exclusively for television. [11] This was the first series not to adapt any of Cleeves' novels. [10] Ciarán Hinds and Anna Chancellor were among the new cast members for this series. [12] A fourth series was announced by the BBC in July 2016. [13] Again, this series is a single story played out across six episodes and written exclusively for television. Stephen Walters and Neve McIntosh were among the new cast members announced for the series. It was broadcast on BBC One beginning on 13 February 2018. [14] Series 5 was broadcast on BBC1 from 12 February 2019. [15]

So it’s not Tosh that Calder has an issue with – it’s the two different approaches to work. Both are valid and, as they start to work together as a team, they see their strength together. first assistant camera: b camera: dailies / second assistant camera: a camera / b camera focus puller / first assistant camera: b camera (12 episodes, 2021-2022)

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I think if she took herself aside - and worked more as part of the team in the beginning - she’d achieve more. At the start, there might be a slight air of superiority about Calder with her taking the view that the Shetland team don’t work quite as well as her London team do. But she begins to realise that there are strengths in not jumping in with both feet at the same time. This is as much a personal story as a professional one for Calder. Tosh and I have had parallel journeys. When we made the pilot, I myself was a real rookie. I had done very little TV and was a deer in headlights, thrown in at the deep end and learning on my feet how the whole business of making a TV show works. And as she grew in experience, and grew up, so did I. HM (30 March 2017). "Shetland – Filming underway on new series of award-winning BBC One drama". BBC Media Centre . Retrieved 2 April 2017. British Academy Scotland Awards: Winners in 2014". www.bafta.org. 20 October 2014 . Retrieved 9 July 2018.