News about Mark Bonnar

Earlier this week, ITV confirmed that the 78-year-old will return for one final season, which will be filmed in Northumberland this summer. Since Vera began in 2011, the show has starred several industry heavyweights - including the late Paul Ritter, Notting Hill's Gina McKee and Catastrophe star Mark Bonnar. However, the series also helped to launch the careers of some of the UK's biggest actors, such as Kingsley Ben-Adir (centre left) and Cush Jumbo (centre right). Here FEMAIL takes a look back at the stars (and musician Sam Feder, left) who owe their careers to the crime drama. Right: Vera actor David Leon, who played DS Joe Ashworth.

Blue Lights season two returned with rave reviews on Monday as Sian Brooke reprised her role as Constable Grace Ellis, a social worker turned policeman attempting to get a handle on the crime in Belfast.  It's the latest of Sian's series to receive rave reviews of late, having been plucked by BBC bosses to star in several primetime shows on the channel.  An average of 2.7 million viewers tuned into the police drama, with the figure expected to rise in coming days.  

The last episode of the second series of World on Fire is scheduled to air on tonight, and fans are already yelling for a third season. During the Second World War's outbreak, the BBC tells the tale of many lives of ordinary civilians around Europe. The first series spanned March 1939 to July 1940, while the second season followed events from October 1940 to May 1941.

Tahar Rahim, Ben Miles as Caulaincourt, Ludivine Sagnier as Theresa Cabarrus, and Matthew Needham as Lucien Bonaparte, Napoleon's brother, are among Phoenix and Kirby's. Youssef Kerkour, Phil Cornwell, Edouard Philipponnat, Ian McNeice, Paul McNeice, John Hollingworth, Gavin Spokes, and Mark Bonnar have all been included in the group.

What a strange accent. Those sounds seemed unlikely from the well-known person's. In Litvinenko (ITV1), not David Tennant's guttural Russian vowels, but Mark Bonnar's booming Cockney, inevitably a man with the most familiar Edinburgh brogue since Maggie Smith in The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie. Bonnar did it for the most part, but the effect of seeing him do undiluted London was similar to that of a soprano opening her mouth and singing Ol' Man River, basso profundo. So far, we've seen little of him as the head of counterterrorism, though we do expect him to play a more central role in the second episode.

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Manipulative Max, the criminal prosecutor played with aplomb by Mark Bonnar (left) in Guilt, is starting to remind me of Wile E. Coyote. He was tricked, tripped, flattened, turned inside-out, and faced with a certain death so many times that he could barely bear a shrug of surprise. I felt a tigerish glee at the brutality that would surely follow as he and his gullible brother Jake (Jamie Sives, right) were shoved through an airport doorway expecting to see a taxi rank but instead found themselves surrounded by thugs. Max had pelt off a cliff and was suspended in empty space, waiting for gravity to catch up with him.

In upcoming Amazon Prime supernatural thriller The Rig, a major chunk of Line of Duty's cast members is expected to appear. The drama will follow the lives of a crew of workers on an oil rig in the North Sea, including Martin Compston, 38, who appears on AC-12's Line of Duty, starring Steve Arnott in the six-part series. Owen Teale, 61, who played Chief Constable Osborne, Mark Bonnar, 54, and Richard Pepple, 41, who played Det Chief Con Mike Dryden, will appear alongside Martin, while actress Rochenda Sandall, 33, who played gangster Lisa McQueen, will appear, while actress Rochenda Sandall, 33, who portrayed gangster Lisa McQueen, will appear.

A collection of the best TV shows on fall has been compiled by a weekend magazine. They have compiled a list of the best shows from various genres, including sci-fi and drama. Strictly Come Dancing, I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here (pictured left), Wednesday (pictured right) and This England (pictured top center) are among the shows planned for the forthcoming season.

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Unlike the amateur contestants on the main series, the majority of the Celebrity MasterChef (BBC1) line-up doesn't know one end of a blender from the other. We're supposed to believe that the celebs who make aprons spend all their free time in the kitchen. The truth is that some of them will not know how to open a Pret pre-packaged sandwich. They'd have to hire their personal assistants to do it.