Channel 4 Renews ‘No Offence’ For 3rd Season
Paul Abbott’s brilliant, critically-acclaimed, police procedural ‘No Offence‘, will be back for a 3rd Series, Channel 4 have announced today.
The RTS Award-winning and BAFTA-nominated drama will return next year, with D.I. Viv Deering and her team from Friday Street station once more clashing with the underworld and their overlords alike.
“It’s a privilege to dive back into the very British chaos of Inspector Viv Deering and her No Offence police family,” comments creator & writer Paul Abbott. “I think we’ve struck a great deal with our audience. They expect nothing but the tilted best and we’re truly honoured to serve. Chucking wicked humour at grim reality is a great cocktail for digesting the real world and pretending to make sense of it. Sleeves up! We’re off again.”
This third series kicks off with the attempted assassination of a local politician by a new Far Right group – an attack which has devastating consequences for the Friday Street team. There’s no time for tears, though, as not only is the maniac still on the loose but the politicos are turning the situation to their advantage. Viv and Friday Street find themselves pawns in a political chess match, which is the last thing they need as incidents of hate crime soar in the city. Viv’s never had it too tough and finds she must deploy every weapon in her arsenal to keep her team together and restore peace to a community wracked with political and xenophobic uncertainty.
Paul Abbott will continue to write on the series at his Writers’ Studio alongside Paul Tomalin, Jimmy Dowdall and Caleb Ranson.
The 2nd series of ‘No Offence’ returned even stronger than series 1 (2.3m) attracting a consolidated average audience of 2.5 million viewers per episode and a 9.5% share from 9-10pm on Wednesdays. This impressive performance saw the 2nd series outperform Channel 4’s slot average by +19% for volume and +14% for share.
‘No Offence‘ is expected to return in Early 2018.
