Actor Martin Compston has hinted that hit BBC police drama Line of Duty could return for a seventh series.
The actor, 38, who plays AC12's Detective Inspector Steve Arnott, said the show's writer Jed Mercurio is capable of producing enough material to generate another script after the much questioned identity of 'H' was finally revealed.
The last series of Line of Duty finished in May of last year and fans have been desperate for more ever since.
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Compston told The Sun : 'We sat down with Jed recently. We've always taken a year or two between series. This is no different.
"We won't do it for the sake of it. We'll do it if there's something to tell."
The screen star also told how he is stunned by the clamour for it.
He said: “It’s amazing knowing people still want us back, especially when colleagues have become my best friends.
“They and the show really mean a lot to me.”
It comes after the actor previously said he was desperate for series six of to come to an end after the production was drawn out over years due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Compston, who has appeared in the series since 2012, said he found the build up to the final release 'too much', admitting the experience of starring in the most recent season was 'intense'.
The nail-biting finale saw the mysterious antagonist 'H' finally unmasked as DSI Ian Buckells after six series of twists and turns around the storyline.
Television bosses commissioned the sixth series in May 2017 and filming begun in February 2020 but stopped a month later when the UK was put into lockdown as a result of Covid.
Filming resumed in September 2020 through to November that year, with the series finally launching on BBC One on 21 March 2021.
Compston's co-star, Co Fermanagh actor Adrian Dunbar, who plays Superintendent Ted Hastings in the hugely popular crime drama, also recently hinted at the return of Line of Duty next year.
He told Belfast Live : "I think we might be doing something (with Line of Duty) next year. Fingers crossed. There is scope for more definitely and there's a bit of cliffhanger there (at the end of series six).
"It was concluded but you know some people felt is there something else out there? There's always something else out there isn't there really? Anyway something else is going to happen and it's going to happen next year but what it is, I have no idea."
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