The scarf is back – Ashley Jensen returns for second Shetland mystery

In series nine, she has moved back to Shetland and gets stuck into a double missing persons case.

But, filmed earlier this year, the experience this time around was a chillier affair.

“The weather was a challenge,” she told BBC Scotland News. “I mean, I’ve known cold when I’ve been filming but this this was something else.

“This is filming when it’s so cold your fingers had stopped working. We had heat pads in our pockets, our underwear and taped to our backs.

“We even had to put our hands in hot water in between takes to literally thaw them out. It’s the only thing that would bring the feeling back into my fingers.”

The new series sees Calder putting down roots.

Jensen said: “Calder’s decided to return to Shetland because it almost felt like there was unfinished business there, or a sort of magnetic draw back home. She’s there to find out who she is which, I think, goes against all her previous instincts.

“When she first came back during the last series, she thought that she’d be there to solve the case and then get away and get back to London, back to her life. But she’s experiencing that thing where home sometimes draws you back.”

The same could be said in real life, as Jensen was happy to get back on the flight to the islands.