As first confirmed on Production Intelligence, filming is now underway in Belfast on Blue Lights, a new BBC One police drama from the writers of The Salisbury Poisonings.

The six-part series is created and written by Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson, and follows three rookie police officers working in Belfast, a uniquely dangerous place to be a police officer.

It is made by Two Cities Television and produced with support from Northern Ireland Screen as part of their continued partnership with the BBC. Sian Brooke (pictured, Martin McCann, Richard Dormer, Katherine Devlin and Nathan Braniff star alongside Jon Lynch, Jonathan Harden and Valene Kane.

Gilles Bannier directs; Carol Moorhead produces. Fran Harris has written episode three and co-written episode four; the executive producers are Stephen Wright for Two Cities Television, Louise Gallagher for Gallagher Films, Tommy Bulfin for the BBC and Lawn and Patterson.

Lawn and Patterson said: “Every writer wants to explore their own place, and their own society as authentically and as honestly as they can. We feel enormously grateful to BBC drama for letting us do that with Blue Lights. And to do it with a cast boasting so much new and established talent makes it even more exciting.”

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