The Bay writer Daragh Carville talks future of the show
The Bay writer Daragh Carville has opened up about the future of the ITV crime drama.
The show, which premiered in March 2019, saw protagonist DS Lisa Armstrong (Morven Christie) assigned to a missing persons investigation in Morecambe Bay, Lancashire. As she dug deeper and deeper into the case though, she was shocked to discover that she had a personal, potentially compromising link to the family involved.
Its eight-episode second series, which kicked off last night (January 20), sees Lisa dealing with the fallout, as well as trying to prove herself when she's asked to help solve a murder.
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"It was always conceived of as a show that could return and there are certainly other stories that I want to tell in The Bay," Carville recently told Digital Spy and other press. "Let's see how things go, as ever. Everything's in the lap of the Gods.
"But certainly, there are other stories that I'd like to tell and I'd like to continue exploring these characters and exploring the world. So I would certainly hope it will run and run."
Elsewhere in the interview, the scribe went on to say that he knew early on that The Bay's second series couldn't lean on Lisa's private life as much as the first, so set about "creating a new kind of story where our team would be plunged in at the deep end with a sudden shocking crime that shatters a family."
He continued: "What happens in the first series, the fact that Lisa is involved with the guy who's part of the family, I absolutely knew that we could never do that kind of story again, where there's that kind of deep personal compromise involved."
The Bay series 1 and 2 are currently available to stream on ITV Hub.
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