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What time is the Dublin Murders final on BBC One tonight and will there be a series two?

DUBLIN Murders season one has brought Tana French’s bestselling novel Dublin Murder Squad to life but it ends TONIGHT (November 5).

But the eight-part series ends this November - here are all the details about the finale episode...

 Sarah Greene and Killian Scott star in BBC One's Dublin Murders
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Sarah Greene and Killian Scott star in BBC One's Dublin MurdersCredit: BBC

When is the Dublin Murders final?

Dublin Murders concludes with its eighth and final episode of season one TONIGHT (Tuesday, November 5, 2019).

The show first aired on BBC One on Monday, October 14, 2019 and has been shown every Monday and Tuesday since.

Sarah Phelps is the writer behind the eight-part series, which blends Tana’s first two novels,  In the Woods and The Likeness.

Of the series, she said: “I was so delighted to have been asked to adapt Tana French’s rich, thrilling novels In The Woods and The Likeness and from them create the complex, strange world of Dublin Murders.

“I’m so excited and proud to see my scripts coming to life under the guidance our brilliant directors Saul Dibb, John Hayes and Rebecca Gatward and I'm in total awe of our peerless cast of blazing Irish talent.”

 Killian Scott plays detective Rob Reilly in BBC One's Dublin Murders
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Killian Scott plays detective Rob Reilly in BBC One's Dublin MurdersCredit: WARNING: Use of this image is subject to the terms of use of BBC Pictures' Digital Picture

Will there be a Dublin Murders series two?

The BBC is yet to reveal whether they will renew the series for a second season, however, executive producer, Kate Harwood, has teased a potential follow up.

Speaking to e, she explained: "Every book is narrated by a detective with a very intense connection with the crime.

“There is also a secondary detective in each novel, who goes on to lead in the subsequent book. It's as if a baton is passed from book to book.”

She added: “The lead character Frank from the third book Faithful Place appears in The Likeness as Cassie's mentor and nemesis so, he is very strongly present in the latter half of the series too."

Dublin Murder's lead actor Killian Scott had admitted he would be willing to work on a second series.

Speaking to , the star divulged: “I’d come back!

“When you’re a working actor you see a lot of scripts all the time, but to get to do something that’s really well written it’s a rare privilege.”

Trailer for the BBC's dark psychological crime thriller Dublin Murders
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