Time Season 3 First Look with Tennant and Finneran

BritBox has released the first photos from the third season of the BAFTA-winning hit drama Time, written by multi-award-winning screenwriter Jimmy McGovern (Unforgivable, Cracker, The Street) and Samuel Bailey (Shook).

Season Three is set in a Young Offenders Institution (YOI) and explores the impact of incarcerating teenagers and the effects on those who look after them.

The photos feature David Tennant as Bobby Bailey, a custodial manager at the YOI; Siobhan Finneran reprising her role as chaplain Marie-Louise O’Dell; Daniel Ryan as Freddie Jennings, a custodial manager at the YOI; Jo Joyner as Nicola; Vinette Robinson as Erica; Louis McCartney as James; Ollie McNulty as Peter; and Chukwubuikem Molokwu as Christopher.

In Time Season 3, prison chaplain Marie-Louise comes to the YOI having lost her faith. When tragedy strikes in the prison, Marie-Louise clashes with veteran officer Bailey, a man in the midst of his own crisis. Bailey knows more about the circumstances that led to this major incident – but will he come clean before the guilt gets too much?

Meanwhile, two teenage young offenders, Peter and James, struggle through the terrifying first weeks and months of their incarceration. Can James ever face his broken parents after an unforgivable act of violence, and will Peter tell the truth about the death of an innocent man, or does family loyalty mean more?

An unlikely friendship between them looks to shift the trajectory of their futures, but in an increasingly unstable environment, is change ever possible?

Time season three (3×60’) is a BBC Studios Fiction production for BBC One and BBC iPlayer, co-produced by BritBox for North America with support from Northern Ireland Screen. The series is written by Jimmy McGovern and Samuel Bailey, directed by Paul Whittington (Dear England, This Town) and produced by Amanda Black (Blue Lights, World on Fire).

The executive producers are Josh Cole, Andrew Morrissey and Michael Parke for BBC Studios Fiction, Lucy Richer for the BBC, Jon Farrar and Jess O’Riordan for BritBox, and Jimmy McGovern. BBC Studios is handling global sales. The first two seasons of Time are available to stream on BritBox.