What time is the Marcella finale on ITV tonight, who’s in the cast alongside Anna Friel and what happens in the second series?
ANNA Friel reprised her role in Scandi-noir crime drama Marcella for its explosive second series.
The nail-biting ITV show was a smash success with viewers in 2016, and now the troubled detective has another murky case to solve. But what do we know so far? Here's the lowdown...
What time is Marcella series two on TV tonight and what can we expect?
Marcella continues with episode eight tonight (April 02) on ITV at 9pm.
The series finale is up against MasterChef on BBC One, The Island with Bear Grylls on Channel 4 and the new series of Made In Chelsea on E4.
Series two started on February 19, 2018, and put viewers straight back into the thrilling drama.
Marcella is alerted to the discovery of a schoolboy's dead body enclosed in a wall, surrounded by toys and a school blazer.
It soon transpires that this is Leo Priestley, a boy who was abducted a few years ago and was friends with Marcella's own son.
Nigel Planer and Keith Allen have joined the cast as a pop star and his manager respectively.
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What is Marcella and who does Anna Friel play?
Marcella (pronounced March-ella) is a London-set crime drama series written by Swedish novelist Hans Rosenfeldt, who also penned The Bridge.
Anna Friel plays Detective Sergeant Marcella Backland, a troubled character who in the first series became a suspect and a witness in the murder case she was trying to solve.
That case involved a serial killer who put plastic bags over the heads of everyone he or she murdered.
The first series also dealt with the breakdown of Marcella's marriage, and how this affected her son Edward.
One of the shocking opening scenes showed Anna sitting in a bath filled with blood, though this was never resolved, leaving viewers confused and annoyed.
Downton Abbey's Laura Carmichael and Corrie's Ian Puleston-Davies had major roles in the first series.