Gone but not Unforgotten
Unforgotten director Andy Wilson looks back on six seasons of ITV’s cold-case detective drama and picks out his favourite moments from each one, revealing how they were brought to the screen. Across six seasons of ITV’s cold-case detective drama Unforgotten, Andy Wilson has been behind the monitor for every single episode as the show’s sole director. It’s a rare feat, matched on the series only by creator Chris Lang as an ever-present writer. In that time, Wilson has overseen the rise of one of the best crime dramas on British television, with each season bringing together a seemingly disparate group of people, a dead body and two detectives determined to piece together the past to identify the killer. Season one introduced DCI Cassie Stuart (Nicola Walker) and DI Sunil ‘Sunny’ Khan (Sanjeev Bhaskar) as the leading police detectives working the case. Then when Walker’s Cassie tragically died at the end of season four, Sonny’s new partner arrived in S5 in the shape of Sinead Keenan’s DCI Jessica ‘Jess’ James. Now airing on ITV, season six of Unforgotten finds Jess and Sunny called to the scene of some suspected human remains on Whitney Marsh. Outspoken television commentator Melinda Ricci (MyAnna Buring), Martin ‘Marty’ Baines (Maximilian Fairley) and his mother Dot (Michele Dotrice), Asif Syed (Elham Ehsas) and Juliet Cooper (Victoria Hamilton) may all be linked to the cold case. The series is produced by Mainstreet Pictures and coproduced by Masterpiece PBS in the US. BBC Studios is the international distributor. Here, … Continue reading Gone but not Unforgotten
