How many episodes are there of Prime Suspect 1973?
In total there will be six episodes of Prime Suspect 1973, with the series finale airing on Thursday April 6.
This week’s episode (the fourth in the series) sees Tennison asked to make a decision which could have huge repercussions for her future.
Terrence O’Duncie is brought into the station following his arrest, but he has been badly beaten, and Gibbs is on the hook for the attack.
A second body is discovered in the canal, leading Bradfield to suspect that they might be looking at a double murder.
Meanwhile, Clifford Bentley and his sons start digging from the café to the bank, but they risk getting caught when David fails to notice the police outside.
Will Prime Suspect 1973 return for season 2?
ITV has not yet announced whether there will be another series of Prime Suspect 1973, which is based on Lynda La Plante’s novel Tennison.
However fans can follow the next chapter of Jane’s adventures in La Plante’s 2016 sequel Hidden Killers.
The book sees Tennison promoted to detective after catching a rapist by posing as a “decoy prostitute”.
Her first call-out is the death of a mother who seemingly drowned in the bath – although Jane suspects that she may have been murdered.
The third book in the Tennison series, Good Friday, will be released on September 7, 2017. The author has said that there will be at least one more story to follow.
La Plante wrote the original Prime Suspect TV series in the 1990s, but left after the third season due to a storyline which saw Tennison become an alcoholic.
The author explained: “I would not have let her be a drunk. I thought she’d fought too hard. I didn’t want to see the final series.”
La Plante has said that she wrote Tennison to “regain control” over the character she created over 20 years ago.
She was originally slated to write the scripts for Prime Suspect 1973, but stepped away from the show before it went into production.
She told Waitrose Weekend magazine that her decision to quit the ITV series was “a sad one, more than anything else really.”
Express.co.uk has reached out to ITV and Lynda La Plante for comment on this story.
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