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Award-winning BBC drama Shetland is back for series 8 with a thrilling, new six-part tale, as Met detective Ruth Calder (Ashley Jensen) returns to the Shetland Isles on the trail of a vulnerable witness, teaming up with Tosh (Alison O'Donnell) on a case that will test their fragile, new partnership.

After thirty years away, Met detective DI Ruth Calder heads back home on the trail of Ellen Quinn (Maisie Norma Seaton) - the scared witness to a London gangland murder. In Lerwick, Tosh pauses her investigation into a string of sinister animal deaths to help Calder find Ellen before it's too late.

Ellen's family are the influential and notorious Bains, led by dominant matriarch, Grace (Phyllis Logan). Calder and Tosh discover her mother Stella (Dawn Steele) and father Kieran (Barry O'Connor) haven't seen Ellen since she left for London six months ago and are surprised to hear that she's back in Shetland.

Matters are made worse when armed hitmen - the experienced Howell (Don Gilét) and volatile Nowak (Arnas Fedaravicius) - arrive on the Isles on a mission to silence Ellen.

On top of the twists and turns of the case, Calder is faced with figures from her past including her ex-boyfriend Cal Innes (Jamie Sives) and estranged younger brother Alan (Steven Miller) - now the minister of their late father's old kirk. However, these siblings have starkly different views of their shared childhood.

It's clear from the off, Calder has no love for Tosh's adopted home and their journey into the dark recesses of Shetland's past and present will test their partnership to the limit.

Inspired by Ann Cleeves' Shetland novels, Shetland: Series 8 is released on DVD 22nd January 2024 from ITV Studios Home Entertainment.