
Happy Valley is a dark, funny, multi-layered thriller revolving around the personal and professional life of Catherine, a dedicated, experienced, hard-working copper. She is also a bereaved mother who looks after her orphaned grandchild.
StatusEnded
TypeScripted
Original LanguageEnglish
Network

Specials of Happy Valley premiered on February 2, 2016

Series 1 of Happy Valley premiered on April 29, 2014
Catherine is a no-nonsense police sergeant who heads up a team of officers in a rural Yorkshire valley. When a staged kidnapping spirals out of control turning into a brutal series of crimes, Catherine finds herself involved in something significantly bigger than her rank, but unknowingly close to home

Series 2 of Happy Valley premiered on February 9, 2016

Series 3 of Happy Valley premiered on January 1, 2023
When Catherine discovers the remains of a gangland murder victim in a drained reservoir, it sparks a chain of events that leads her straight back to Tommy Lee Royce. Her grandson, Ryan, is now sixteen and has ideas of his own about the kind of relationship he wants to have with the man Catherine refuses to acknowledge as his father, leaving Catherine's sister Clare caught in the middle. In another part of the valley, a local pharmacist gets in over his head when a neighbour is arrested.

Sarah Lancashire
Catherine Cawood

Siobhan Finneran
Clare Cartwright

James Norton
Tommy Lee Royce
Rhys Connah
Ryan Cawood

Charlie Murphy
Ann Gallagher

Shane Zaza
Shafiq Shah

George Costigan
Nevison Gallagher

Rick Warden
Insp Mike Taylor

Vincent Franklin
DSU Andy Shepherd

Mollie Winnard
Joanna Hepworth

Mark Stanley
Rob Hepworth

Amit Shah
Faisal Bhatti

Katherine Kelly
DI Jodi Shackleton
Ishia Bennison
Joyce Metcalf

Chord Melodic
Sledge