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Line of duty3/19/2023 ![]() ![]() Watch Line of Duty seasons 1-5 on BBC iPlayer. ![]() Kate, Steve and Ted survived the finale, alongside newcomer Chloe, so we'd expect to see them all back in some capacity.ĬC Osborne, DCC Andrea Wise and Chris Lomax are also possible returning characters in future seasons. The writer said that the plot had been revisited in scripts, only to be later taken out and said that he was intrigued by the possibility of revisiting the storyline. Mercurio revealed in the BBC's Obsessed with Line of Duty podcast that he has considered returning to the activities of Freemasons. It was a storyline that was touched upon with Patrick Fairbank and Hastings, who exchanged a Masonic handshake. The future of AC-12 looked uncertain as Patricia Carmichael was brought in by CC Osborne to strip back the department.Ī new season could mean a different team – Hastings is heading for retirement – and that could mean an increased role for Shalom Brune-Franklin’s DC Chloe Bishop.Īnother possible storyline could revolve around the Freemasons. ![]() So even though AC-12 nailed The Fourth Man, there are still surviving groups of criminals with links to the police. Carr was a 30-year-old man who had spent half his life in prison or jail, hours later killed himself after taking a hostage at a convenience store. You’re never going to run out of bent coppers, but the long-running ‘H’ and ‘Fourth Man’ mystery was resolved in the season 6 finale.īut from evidence given by Jo Davidson (Kelly Macdonald) in her interview with AC-12, the OCG is no longer a united front and has splintered into rival gangs. In one of the most horrific days in law enforcement history, a violent cop-hater (Hank Earl Carr) murdered a child (his girlfriends son), two homicide detectives and a state trooper. She added: “I would like to congratulate and the entire cast and crew for delivering such an incredible drama series.” Will there be a Line of Duty spin-off film?Īfter more than a year since Line of Duty season 6 came to an end, Adrian Dunbar (Ted Hastings) has revealed that an announcement on the show's future could be made by the end of September. “I’m looking forward to having a conversation with the team about where we go next and what the future of the series might be,” she said. A seventh season would probably need a story reboot, so may take Mercurio a little longer to plan.īBC Chief Content Officer Charlotte Moore has confirmed that as far as the BBC is concerned, they would like to see more series of Line of Duty. Season 5 and 6 were confirmed at the same time, allowed the writer to plot out a longer story and the conclusion to the Fourth Man mystery. Or three, the BBC and Jed Mercurio simply haven’t decided yet. Two, they didn't want to confirm a seventh season until the end of season 6, because it would have implied that all our AC-12 heroes got out alive (although, that point is a bit redundant now, as we've been waiting so long!) One, Jed Mercurio wanted to wrap up the show with the Fourth Man mystery in season 6 and go out on a high. By the penultimate episode of the seven-part season, the numbers had climbed to 10.9 million, making it the most-watched television drama episode since Doctor Who’s Christmas Day special in 2008 and out-rating episodes of ITV’s hit, Downton Abbey.Despite record breaking ratings, a smash hit BBC Sounds podcast and an outpouring of love for Adrian Dunbar, Vicky McClure and Martin Compston, a seventh season of Line of Duty is still not confirmed. The opening-episode audience of 9.56 million made it the best-performing drama there since 2018’s Bodyguard (also written by Mercurio). The series, which has grown from a quiet achiever to a major hit, returned in the UK in March to record ratings. How long would it be until we could again immerse ourselves in the dogged crusade of the police anti-corruption unit AC-12? How long until we could again see Detective Sergeant Steve Arnott (Martin Compston), Detective Inspector Kate Fleming (Vicky McClure) and their boss, “the gaffer”, Superintendent Ted Hastings (Adrian Dunbar), hunting down bent coppers?Ī while, as it turned out: it’s now been nearly two years since season five premiered here on Foxtel’s 13th Street. ![]() Early seasons of the tense, intricately plotted, acronym-laden BBC police procedural screened on the ABC, quietly building a devoted niche following.īut when the spread of COVID-19 shut down production on the crime drama’s sixth season early last year, four weeks into the 16-week shoot, howls of dismay from fans resounded around the world. Jed Mercurio’s accomplished and absorbing crime drama only gradually infiltrated popular viewing habits. Line of Duty has been a slow-burn success story. ![]()
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