Doctor Foster star Bertie Carvel drops big hint popular BBC drama could return

22 April 2023 , 20:49

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Doctor Foster star Bertie Carvel drops big hint popular BBC drama could return

Doctor Foster star Bertie Carvel has teased that the acclaimed series could return in the future, with him hinting over the possibility more than five years since it last aired.

The BBC show - which aired for two series from 2015 until 2017 - had followed Dr. Gemma Foster (played by Suranne Jones), who discovered her husband was having an affair.

Bertie, now 45, played the titular character's husband Simon Foster. The property developer had been engaged in an affair with university student Kate Parks (Jodie Comer).

The second series ended on a cliffhanger as Simon and Gemma's teenage son Tom Foster (Tom Taylor) ran away, explaining his reasons in a voicemail to his mother.

Suranne Jones (right) and Jodie Comer (left) had been among the cast of the acclaimed Doctor Foster (BBC/Drama Republic/Laurence Cend)

It hasn't ever been confirmed that the show will return and writer Mike Bartlett, 42, once said that it would only come back "if [they] had the right story to tell in the right way".

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But now Simon actor Bertie - who has more recently appeared in Channel 5's Dalgliesh and Netflix's The Crown - has teased in a new interview that Doctor Foster could return in the future.

He suggested to the Sun's TV Mag that there's a chance viewers could see the fictional family on screen again. Discussing such, he told the outlet: "Never say never…"

And the actor speculated that there's a possibility of the characters appearing in a spin-off, following two supporting characters having appeared in a subsequent TV show.

The show, which also starred Bertie Carvel, concluded its second series back in 2017 (BBC/Drama Republic/Laurence Cendrowicz)

The characters Anna Baker (Victoria Hamilton) and Neil Baker (Adam James) appeared in Mike's drama series Life in 2020. Anna had started a new life under a new identity.

Bertie told the outlet recently: "I imagine Gemma and Simon are still alive in that version of the multiverse, and if they're not in one, they will be in another…"

Doctor Foster debuted in 2015 and proved popular at the time, with the first series' finale having attracted more than 10 million viewers around the time of its broadcast.

The second series launched two years later in 2017 and the BBC announced following its release that it had attracted more viewers on average than its debut instalment.

Joel Leaver