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The Jetty: BBC Releases Preview Image for Jenna Coleman Cop Thriller

Jenna Coleman plays a rookie cop (because no one's ever a veteran cop?) in the upcoming BBC cop thriller The Jetty - here's a look!

Published Tue, 16 Jan 2024 19:37:08 -0600

by Adi Tantimedh

Last updated Tue, 16 Jan 2024 21:50:50 -0600

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Jenna Coleman stars as Det. Ember Manning in BBC's 'The Jetty', a cop thriller.
Preview image and first look at the series released by the BBC.
Film explores themes of sexual morality and identity in a Me Too era setting.
Jenna Coleman's rookie detective will see the case impact her personal life.

The BBC unveiled a first look at Jenna Coleman (Doctor Who, The Cry, The Serpent) playing a cop in the apparently highly anticipated (not by us!) new crime drama The Jetty, from writer Cat Jones and producers Firebird Pictures, for BBC One and BBC iPlayer. Because eventually, every British A-lister ends up playing a cop in a BBC or ITV show. It's inevitable, like an irrefutable Law of the Universe these days.

The Jetty: BBC Previews New Jenna Coleman Cop Thriller — Ember Manning (Jenna Coleman) in "The Jetty" (Image: Firebird Pictures): BBC

Jenna Coleman said, "Working with BBC and Firebird Pictures on bringing the complex and enigmatic character of Ember Manning to life has been an incredible experience. I can't wait for everyone to meet this new heroine and to find out what's lurking beneath the surface of The Jetty."

Coleman stars as rookie detective Ember Manning in The Jetty alongside Archie Renaux, Laura Marcus, Bo Bragason, Amelia Bullmore, Ruby Stokes, Tom Glynn-Carney, Weruche Opia, Matthew McNulty, Ralph Ineson, David Ajala, Nina Barker-Francis, Miya Ocego, Elliot Cowan, Shannon Watson, Arthur Hughes, Dominic Coleman and Ruaridh Mollica.

In the four-part series, a fire tears through a holiday home in a scenic Lancashire lake town. Detective Ember Manning (Jenna Coleman) must work out how it connects to a podcast journalist investigating a missing persons cold case and an illicit 'love' triangle between a man in his twenties and two underage girls. But as Ember gets close to the truth, it threatens to destroy her life – forcing her to re-evaluate everything she thought she knew about her past, present, and the town she's always called home. Frankly, we don't understand why Coleman has to be a "rookie cop" as opposed to just a cop in this story, but there you go.

As much a coming-of-age story as a detective thriller, The Jetty asks big questions about sexual morality, identity, and memory, in the places that Me Too has left behind. Yes, well, since when are there "little" questions about sexual morality, identity, and memory? We would love to see some.

We're glad Jenna Coleman continues to be in demand, but we would much rather see her in a Johanna Constantine series being snarky to demons from Hell.

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