Last Tango in Halifax: trailer

It’s been a long wait for fans of Alan, Celia, Caroline and Gillian.

But a trailer has been released for the fifth season of Last Tango In Halifax, which is set to premiere later this year in the UK.

Derek Jacobi, Anne Reid, Nicola Walker and Sarah Lancashire all return. New episodes were last seen in 2016.

A date for Australia is yet to be announced.

In season five, Alan and Celia are now seven years into their marriage but, having moved into a desirable bungalow with stunning views across the Calder Valley, they aren’t quite seeing eye to eye. It isn’t just their differing politics that’s a source of tension; Alan’s new supermarket job brings an unexpected challenge in the form of a wild local lad, and at Far Slack Farm Gillian faces trouble with a giraffe.

Meanwhile John is back on the scene, and Caroline finds herself entangled in an emotional debacle with someone at work. Into all of this jets Alan’s brother Ted on holiday from New Zealand. But it turns out he’s only bought a one-way ticket… and he hasn’t come alone. The four-episode fifth season was penned by Sally Wainwright and is being directed by Gareth Bryn. The executive producers are Faith Penhale, Laura Lankester, Ben Irving and Sally Wainwright.