UKTV’s crime drama channel, Alibi (Sky 132, Virgin 130), has announced that Castle, the popular and fast-paced US police drama is to return to our screens for a third series at 9pm on Wednesday 9th March 2011.

The action-packed show, exclusive to Alibi, is full of murders, twists and turns, and will once again be staring Nathan Fillion (Desperate Housewives, Firefly, Serenity) as a successful murder mystery novelist and former Bond girl Stana Katic (Quantum of Solace, Feast of Love) as an attractive and feisty NYPD Detective.

Series one and two has followed the ‘will-they-won’t they’ relationship between the wise cracking crime writer Richard “Rick” Castle and Kate Beckett, but when series three of Castle begins, Beckett hasn’t heard from Castle since he left for the Hamptons months ago to finish writing his second Nikki Heat novel, “Naked Heat”. So when Beckett and her team burst into a shadowy apartment on the trail of a murderer, the last thing they expect to see is the real-life Castle standing over a dead woman’s body holding a gun! As Castle protests his innocence, Beckett has no choice but to arrest him on suspicion of murder. Check out the official season 3 Alibi trailer. [Source]