{"id":49413,"date":"2024-04-11T21:00:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T19:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2021620"},"modified":"2024-04-11T23:44:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T21:44:03","slug":"blue-lights-creators-on-how-season-3-and-4-renewal-has-affected-writing","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/blue-lights-creators-on-how-season-3-and-4-renewal-has-affected-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Lights creators on how season 3 and 4 renewal has affected writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

“It’s kind of like you’re doing a painting on a small page and then someone says, ‘Here’s a big canvas.'” <\/p>

By James Hibbs\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Thursday, 11 April 2024 at 19:00 PM<\/p>

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Fans of police drama Blue Lights<\/a> received some exciting news earlier this year ahead of the second season \u2013 not only will it be coming back for a third outing, but it has also been renewed for season 4, in a bumper, double renewal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It was a surprising announcement as the BBC rarely renews dramas for multiple seasons at a time, and creators Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn reacted to the news at a Q&A for the new season, while also revealing how it has impacted the writing process.<\/p>\n

Lawn said: \u201cIt\u2019s wonderful. It\u2019s a great vote of confidence in the whole team and everyone involved. Creatively though, for us as writers, it gives us a great deal of certainty, and it means we can plan the story arcs now over 12 episodes instead of six, which we\u2019re really excited about.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of like you\u2019re doing a painting on a small page and then someone says, \u2018Here\u2019s a big canvas.\u2019 So it feels creatively very, very exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n