Skip to main content

Jamie Dornan and Gillian Anderson return for The Fall Season 3

The Fall: Series 3 - Teaser Trailer - BBC Two
Before Jamie Dornan introduced millions of unbeknownst suburban housewives to sadomasochism in 50 shades of Grey, he put the fear in audiences with a wholly different shade of sadism in the chilling BBC murder mystery, The Fall. Today, Deadline reported that both Dornan and his powerful female counterpart in Gillian Anderson will return for a third installment of the gripping series.

According to the report, the third season was greenlit today by BBC 2, continuing one of the more popular series to come from the network last year, which gained a whole new audience after each season was picked up by Netflix.

The series follows Dornan as Paul Spector, an amiable counselor by day who transforms into a vicious serial killer by night in Belfast, Ireland, echoing a perversely dark mirror image of the role that would rocket him to stardom on the big screen. Anderson plays the cold and brilliant Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson, in charge of tracking down the killer.

Season 3 will reportedly bring five more hour-long episodes that will continue the cat-and-mouse game between the two adversaries, further exploring the deeper themes exposed by the intimate story line.

“The story is far from over,” said BBC Drama Controller Ben Stephenson. “(Creator Allan Cubitt) has known the end game from the beginning …”

The launch date for Season 3 of The Fall has yet to be announced, but it will no doubt be an even longer, if worthwhile, wait for those relegated to see the next installment on Netflix.

Editors' Recommendations

Ryan Waniata
Former Digital Trends Contributor
Ryan Waniata is a multi-year veteran of the digital media industry, a lover of all things tech, audio, and TV, and a…
The best movie and TV show trailers of the week of May 3
Freya Allan in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.

Unless you're super dialed in to the latest entertainment news every day of the week, it's really easy to miss a new trailer for your favorite movie or TV show. That's why we're bringing together the best movie and TV show trailers of the week of May 3 in one place. All you really have to do now is scroll down and hit play.

Just releasing a new trailer isn't enough to get it on our roundup. We believe that the best trailers are the ones that don't give away too much about the story, while also building up a sense of excitement for the film or TV series. Most of all, we still want to be surprised when we actually watch the programing in question. Keep this in mind as we go over this week's trailers.
From season 3

Read more
Watch Kentucky Oaks 2024 live stream: Can you watch for free?
Let it ride with these tasty Kentucky Derby drinks

The 2024 Kentucky Oaks is set to run today at Churchill Downs. Though it may not be quite as popular as Saturday's main event, the Oaks is a Grade-1 race and undoubtedly one of the biggest races of the year for the top three-year-old fillies.

You're just in time, as coverage of all the Oaks Day races is about to start, at 1:00 p.m. ET, and in the United States it will be televised on USA Network. The Kentucky Oaks is set to post at 5:51 p.m. ET.

Read more
The best movies on Amazon Prime Video (May 2024)
Nicholas Galitzine and Anne Hathaway in The Idea of You.

Amazon Prime Video is starting off strong in May with several new additions to its library of movies, including the premiere of the original romantic drama The Idea of You. Last year's underrated Christmas drama The Holdovers is also now streaming on Prime Video. And as far as we're concerned, a good drama is never out of season.

Prime Video lost a handful of movies at the end of April, and Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza is only sticking around through the end of the weekend. But everything else on our list of the best movies on Amazon Prime Video right now is still available. Just keep reading, and you can make plans to watch any of the films that you want to see this month.

Read more