Shooting stars

Genevieve O’Reilly and Tim Roth are gunning for their enemies as Tin Star relocates to Liverpool for the gritty thriller’s final season

- RICHARD MCCLURE

NEW DRAMA

Tin Star: Liverpool

Thursday, Sky Atlantic HD, 9pm & 10pm

Since Tin Star debuted in 2017, the Sky Atlantic thriller has become synonymous with the stunning Canadian Rockies as we’ve followed ex-pat English cop Jim Worth through a series of personal tragedies, alcoholism, vendettas and shoot-outs.

Now, as the show returns for its third and final season, there’s a dramatic change of scene as Jim (Tim Roth) and his family return to Liverpool to confront their dark and violent history – and the reasons they fled to Canada in the first place.

It’s the latest disturbing chapter for Jim and his wife Angela (Genevieve O’Reilly), who endured a terrifying time in Canada as their son Peter was shot dead by a hitman in a botched attempt on Jim’s life.

Despite moving to a remote religious community, they found themselves hunted down by a gang of assassins from Liverpool, while in the last episode, Angela told daughter Anna (Abigail Lawrie) that Jim wasn’t her biological father – and that her real father was a now-dead criminal she knew back in Liverpool.

Now, in a bid to banish the ghosts from the past, and safeguard their future, Jim and the family are intent on tracking down their enemies – and killing them all.

But their adversaries are waiting for them and, almost as soon as the family arrive in Liverpool, there are dead bodies in lifts, car chases through the city’s streets and a gun fight in a ballroom.

Here, Roth, 59, and O’Reilly, 43, tell us more of what we can expect from the new series …