Sunday, April 8, 9 p.m.

The wits of DCI Cassie Stuart and DS Sunny Khan, played by Nicola Walker (Last Tango in Halifax) and Sanjeev Bhaskar (Indian Summers), are tested in their investigations of two stone-cold cases of murder. A Mainstreet production for ITV, Chris Lang is the show's creator and writer. The series is directed by Andy Wilson and executive produced by Sally Haynes, Lang and Laura Mackie. Tim Bradley is its producer. Masterpiece's critically acclaimed UK crime series, Unforgotten, will air on Sunday, April 8 at 9 p.m. on PBS.

Unforgotten opens its first season with the discovery of a human skeleton beneath a basement. In investigating the crime scene, Cassie and Sunny learn the identity of the remains—Jimmy Sullivan, who was a young man, and his nearly-disintegrated pocket diary place the detectives in a position that gives them potential in solving the murder.

Inside the diary, there is a list of names: Sir Phillip Cross (Trevor Eve), a mobster who bribed his way into the aristocracy; Father Robert Greaves (Bernard Hill), a beloved vicar with a dark secret; Lizzie Wilton (Ruth Sheen), a reformed skinhead; and Eric Slater (Tom Courtenay), an elderly, disabled bookkeeper taking care of his wife, Claire (Gemma Jones), who is suffering from dementia.

The Telegraph (London) called Unforgotten's opening episodes "the gateway to a labyrinth of absorbingly interconnected lives," adding that Walker and Bhaskar portray "two of the most credibly ordinary cops currently on the TV beat."

The Australia (Syndney) singled out screenwriter Lang as "a cunning master of parallel plotting. Compelling stuff." 

The Independent (London) lauded the remarkable supporting cast of "unforgotten and unforgettable actors."

 

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