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Line of Duty could return for seventh season with ‘three or four episodes’, Adrian Dunbar says
Mother of God…
Line of Duty could soon be coming back for a seventh season with ‘three or four episodes’, Adrian Dunbar has suggested this week.
The smash-hit BBC drama follows anti-corruption unit AC12 and its various investigations into corrupt police officers and organised crime gangs.
Despite the series’ popularity, however, opinions among fans were divided when the sixth season revealed the nonsensical DS Ian Buckells to be the notorious ‘supervillain’ H in the season finale.
And while Dunbar’s character Ted Hastings was faced with the end of his beloved AC-12 and a forced early retirement, the actor has this week suggested that Hastings and his team could be making their comeback sooner than we’d thought.
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Speaking to The Times, Dunbar revealed he and Line of Duty co-stars Martin Compston and Vicky McClure, along with the show’s creator Jed Mercurio, have a curry date pencilled in for next week, where they will discuss the series making a return.
He said: “There’s a big appetite for more Line of Duty. It could be three or four episodes, I don’t think there’s going to be six for some reason.
“It might be two ninety minutes. But it’s all entirely down to Jed what the storyline is going to be. It’s a big ask for him. It’s going to be really good.”
He then revealed that ‘maybe someone will die’, adding that Mercurio isn’t afraid of killing beloved characters off.
Dunbar added: “Someone’s going to be under threat. He [Mercurio] doesn’t mind killing characters off. Maybe he’ll kill us all off. A terrible car crash when we’re rushing to the scene of a crime? We’ll have to leave it to him.”
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Dunbar also addressed the almost universal outrage that greeted the big reveal of H, saying: “It may not have been dramatically satisfying and I can understand why people went, ‘Oh my God!’.
“But it was a proper way to conclude, to show that actually some of the biggest stuff that happens is very simply an ordinary cop not passing on information because he’s been asked not to and that’s the one thing that can make a heist work.”
Despite the controversy surrounding H’s identity, however, the series finale smashed all records on the night of its release, with an average of 12.8 million people tuning in to watch – so we can expect even bigger things if a new season does arrive.
The BBC are yet to confirm a seventh season of Line of Duty.