'Hope Street' Filming Season 5, Including Special 50th Episode

It is rare for daytime soaps from other countries to find homes in the U.S., unless they are a specific kind of Mexican telenovela shown on U.S. Spanish-speaking networks. That's just one of the reasons the Northern Ireland-set series Hope Street has been such a surprise hit. The daytime series, which airs on BBC NI across the pond, has been a significant success for BritBox, to the point that the first three seasons of the series have been picked up by many local PBS stations and PBS Passports for second run. While PBS viewers wait for Season 4 to arrive from BritBox later in 2025, they can be assured that the series will return next year for Season 5.

Hope Street's surprise success is also notable because, unlike many American daytime soaps, the cast turnover has been massive from the show's first season, with multiple lead characters sticking around for only a single season (such as Season 1's DC Leila Hussain) or reduced to guest roles (like Season 2's DC Al Quinn) after their one season in the sun.

Season 5 is no exception, though fans will be relieved that the turnover this year won't be quite as brutal as the turnover after Season 3, which saw the exit of original co-star Ciarán McMenamin, multiple supporting characters related to his tenure, and even the set the show was using. Season 5 does shed Niall Wright's PC Callum McCarthy, who had been with the series since the beginning, but in his place, it adds two new faces: Jenn Murray (Lewis) and Cameron Cuffe (Nautilus), whose meet-cute will be the talk of the season.