Series 3 Trailer
iTV has posted the most AWESOME trailer for Series 3 on YouTube :
Poll
Given that Nicola has been featured so prominently in the Trailer, we wonder what does this mean for the character she plays on the show. We have information about Nicola’s character on this page. Don’t read if you don’t want to know. But if you already have this information, tell us what you think about her character in this Poll. We will close the Poll before the air date for episode 1.
Update : 3 April 2013 The Poll has been closed as Episode 1 will air in the UK tonight. Thank you to all who logged a vote. 🙂
Press Kit
You can download the iTV Press Kit HERE.
An interview with Nicola is included in the Press Kit. In it she talks about meeting Suranne Jones at the 2012 BAFTAs. You can read a report from our special correspondents about Nicola walking the red carpet at the 2012 BAFTAs HERE.
Episode Guides
All of these episode guides contain spoilers, so don’t click on the links if you don’t want to know what happens in each episode before you actually watch the show.
Episode 1 : iTV | Radio Times
Update : 27 March 2013 : iTV has posted this trailer for Episode 1 :
Episode 2* : iTV | Radio Times / Episode 3* : iTV | Radio Times
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Episode 4 : iTV / Radio Times
Episode 5 : iTV / Radio Times
In addition to the Episode 5 trailer below which was released by iTV, there is also this special interview from the iTV Press Centre with Nicola and other cast members about the character, “Helen Bartlett”. As with all of the other interviews available in the iTV Press Kit, this interview was also conducted by Ian Wylie.
Episode 6* : iTV / Radio Times | Episode 7* : iTV / Radio Times
Episode 8 : iTV / Radio Times
[* Nicola does not appear in these episodes.]
Reviews
Here are the initial thoughts of Ian Wylie on Series 3 (click on the image to see a larger pic) :
All of these reviews contain spoilers, so don’t click on the links if you don’t want to know what happens in each episode before you actually watch the show.
Episode 1 : Telegraph | Unreality TV | Daily Mail | Times UK (subscription required) | MSN UK | Metro UK
From Metro UK’s review
Cast as a child abuse victim, Walker conveyed decades of misery in just a few downcast looks – the script scarcely needed to spell out what she’d been through. She’s recently stolen scenes in shows as diverse as Heading Out and Last Tango In Halifax – someone must surely be writing a starring vehicle for her as we speak.
We hope so, we really hope so! [Emphasis and links in the above quote were added by us and did not appear in the original review.]
Episode 2 | Episode 3 | Episode 4 | Episode 5 | Episode 6 | Episode 7
Episode 8 (in no particular order)
Ratings
Episode 1 6.13 million viewers and a 25.89% shares. The show won its time slot! Congratulations to cast and crew. Well done!!! However, it has been pointed out that this is the lowest rating the show has scored for a debut episode since the show first aired 2 years ago. Here’s hoping that the ratings will pick up as we get deeper into Helen’s story.
Episode 2 | Episode 3
Episode 4 5.2 million viewers.
Episode 5 | Episode 6 | Episode 7
Episode 8 5.4 million viewers.
Buy the DVD on Amazon UK
The Region 2 DVD boxset is released 1 July 2013.
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when I saw Nicola’s portrayal of Helen in ‘ scott and bailey ‘, I was very moved by her character.Her acting draws you in like only a rare few performers can. I am definitely hooked on the prospect of seeing her on the ‘big ‘ or ‘ small’ screen from now on.
It was last week when I saw the episode of Scott & Baley where Helen Bartlett died. I felt even the next day awfully sad about her life and death, although she never existed. And that was due to Nicola’s superb acting!
This series of Scott and Bailey just ended tonight in the States. I have to say, I had never before heard of Nicola; however, her portrayal of the doomed Helen Bartlett was as good as acting gets. I am so pleased to find out that she has already been recognized. I think if she is not nominated, at least, for this portrayal (in the BAFTAs?) there will be a real injustice committed. She was brilliant, and heartbreaking, in this series. What an amazing performance.
For Australian viewers: Scott & Bailey season 3 will begin on ABC1 on Friday 6 September at 9:30pm, after Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. Not the most obvious two shows to put together, I guess start the evening light with all the pretty frocks and period detail, and then move into darker territory.
I have seen series 3 of S & B thanks to the internet but will certainly watch it again, hated Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries though
Just have to say that – i guess – along with many other people I have been aware of Nicola’s work for years. But just recently she suddenly seems to have blossomed as one our most important acting talents. Over the last few weeks we have seen her in an astonishing number of programmes and she is simply brilliant. Her performance in the episode of Scott & Bailey broadcast last night was stunning. And my wife and I thought she was wonderful in the criminally underrated and misunderstood Heading Out.