Olly Stevens

Olly is a young local reporter at the Broadchurch Echo, eager to break out of small-town journalism with a real story. He's the nephew of DS Ellie Miller, which gives him inside access he's not above using. Scruffy, earnest, and a little too pleased with himself, he's chasing the case as a career break.

Jonathan Bailey plays him with a gawky, puppyish ambition that's easy to underestimate — he's comic relief in the early episodes, the overeager kid with a laptop and a scoop. But the show uses his closeness to the family and his hunger for a byline to needle at the ethics of reporting on grief, and Bailey never lets the charm curdle into something purely opportunistic.