time for Time series three starts on Sunday 11 October, with Siobhan Finneran back as Prison Chaplain Marie-Louise. The first trailer and new artwork arrived with the date, and the three-part run now has a fixed rollout across iPlayer and One.
Time series three is a 3x60' production, so the new launch date does more than set a premiere. It gives viewers the full shape of the return: episode one on Sunday 11 October, episode two on Monday 12 October and episode three on Sunday 18 October.
David Tennant and Daniel Ryan
David Tennant and Daniel Ryan appear in the new trailer as Custodial Managers Bobby Bailey and Freddie Jennings. Louis McCartney, Ollie McNulty and Chukwubuikem Molokwu play James, Peter and Christopher, giving the trailer a clear reset around the prison setting rather than a single-episode tease.
Jimmy McGovern wrote Time series three with Samuel Bailey, and the series was filmed in Belfast. That combination keeps the show close to the stripped-back structure that made the first two series easy to follow on iPlayer, where both are already available.
Siobhan Finneran in Time
Siobhan Finneran returns as Prison Chaplain Marie-Louise, and the new series puts her in a harder position than before. Marie-Louise comes to the YOI having lost her faith, while the story also places her in conflict with Bobby Bailey after tragedy strikes.
That split gives the new trailer its edge. The series is not just extending a familiar format; it is shifting one of its central figures into moral freefall while the prison management side of the story tightens around an incident that has not been explained publicly in any detail.
iPlayer and One
Episode one lands on iPlayer at 6am on Sunday 11 October and on One at 9pm the same day. Episode two follows on Monday 12 October, and episode three airs on Sunday 18 October, giving the audience a compressed three-part run instead of a long weekly stretch.
For viewers, the practical answer is straightforward: the first episode is available online from early morning, while the evening broadcast gives One its first showing of the new series. After that, the schedule tightens quickly, so anyone planning to watch in order has a one-week window to stay current with the final two episodes.
