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Line of Duty star Adrian Dunbar issues big update on potential new season

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Published 12:26 12 Nov 2024 GMT

Line of Duty star Adrian Dunbar issues big update on potential new season

Finally, a season seven?

Tom Earnshaw

Tom Earnshaw

One of Line of Duty's biggest stars has revealed major new details about the future of the hit BBC crime drama that has become one of the best shows in the last two decades.

Adrian Dunbar is known for playing Superintendent Ted Hastings across all six seasons of the show, with the Irishman central to everything going on in the run up to finding out who H was.

Around 16 million of us tuned in to the BBC when the identity was finally revealed back in 2021, with it finally telling us who the corrupt police officer was.

Not everyone was convinced with the ending to the plot, it leaving fans mixed when they found out that the bent copper was in fact none other than the rather shambolic DSI Ian Buckells. Hardly the criminal mastermind many had thought up in their heads over the years.

Now, it looks like Dunbar has all but confirmed Line of Duty will finally return for another season.

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Speaking to Times Radio, he hinted that the situation with showrunner Jed Mercurio is quickly closing in on an official announcement.

He said: "All the signals and everything is [positive] but until the script hits the desk, you can’t be 100 per cent sure."

One more outing? (John Phillips/Getty Images)
One more outing? (John Phillips/Getty Images)

Dunbar added: "We’re all hoping that someone somewhere will make an announcement and say, ‘Yes, it’s happening’.

"And we can all take it from there. I can tell you one thing... the day they announce it, it’s going to burn up the internet."

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Reports from earlier in November state that Dunbar met up with Mercurio and his fellow Line of Duty stars, Martin Compston and Vicky McClure, for a 'summit' on how to make season seven a reality. This was after Mercurio himself had previously said season six was a wrap on the show.

According to The Sun, they were making sure their schedules were clear so they could start filming in 2025 with a potential release in 2027 after post-production had done its job.

Little has been said about a potential season seven but Dunbar has previously given hints as to what it could involve if AC-12 were to reunite for one more outing.

Dunbar is clearly eager for the show to return (Tabatha Fireman/Getty Images)
Dunbar is clearly eager for the show to return (Tabatha Fireman/Getty Images)

Speaking to The Times in 2022, he said there remained a 'big appetite for more Line of Duty'.

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"It could be three or four episodes, I don’t think there’s going to be six for some reason," he said.

"It might be two 90 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. Maybe someone’s going to die.

"Someone’s going to be under threat. He 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."

Whatever happens, we'll certainly be there for Steve Arnott, Kate Fleming, and Ted Hastings getting the band back together once more.

Featured Image Credit: BBC

Topics: Line of Duty, TV, UK News, BBC, True Crime

Tom Earnshaw
Tom Earnshaw

Tom joined LADbible Group in 2024, currently working as SEO Lead across all brands including LADbible, UNILAD, SPORTbible, Tyla, UNILAD Tech, and GAMINGbible. He moved to the company from Reach plc where he enjoyed spells as a content editor and senior reporter for one of the country's most-read local news brands, LancsLive. When he's not in work, Tom spends his adult life as a suffering Manchester United supporter after a childhood filled with trebles and Premier League titles. You can't have it all forever, I suppose.

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