Edward’s career ended in disgrace after a report by the Sun in July 2023 alleged a “top BBC Star” had paid a teenager for sexual pictures.
Days later, his wife named him as the presenter at the centre of the scandal and the newsreader resigned in April.
In June 2024, following a Met Police investigation, he was charged with three counts of making indecent images of children in relation to WhatsApp exchanges with a man called Alex Williams.
Edwards pleaded guilty to the charges a month later, and admitted to having 41 photographs on WhatsApp, including seven of the most serious type.
He was given a six-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, and was placed on the sex offenders’ register for seven years.
The new series will be directed by Michael Samuels, known for British dramas The Windermere Children and Any Human Heart.