Line Of Duty is set to return to the BBC on Sunday, with fans desperate to know just who is behind the mysterious identity ‘H’. And Adrian Dunbar, who heads AC-12’s unit as SuperIntendent Ted Hastings, admitted it was a ‘shock’ to see the series come together after the trailer was released earlier this month. … Read more
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Line Of Duty creator Jed Mercurio excited fans when he shared the first clue about the plot of season six to Twitter. Uploading a snap of a packet of the Australian chocolate biscuits TimTams with the caption ‘#LineofDuty Series 6 Plot Clue No. 1’, fans began to ferociously speculate as to what it might mean. But … Read more
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‘It was hard to get our heads around’: Line of Duty’s Adrian Dunbar says filming series six was ‘difficult’ because it was shot out of sequence due to pandemic By Connie Rusk For Mailonline Published: 10:02 GMT, 3 February 2021 | Updated: 10:02 GMT, 3 February 2021 Line of Duty’s Adrian Dunbar has revealed filming … Read more
Adrian Dunbar has teased that the hotly anticipated new season of Line of Duty is ‘coming soon’, saying it should be released in ‘the next couple of months’. The Irish actor, 62, who plays Superintendent Ted Hastings in the BBC police drama, also admitted it was ‘tricky’ shooting the ‘very complicated’ story out of sequence in … Read more
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