Fans aren't the only ones eagerly anticipating the seventh season of Line of Duty, even the shows bad guy has big plans in store.
Nigel Boyle, who plays corrupt cop Ian Buckells on the show, has it all planned out if the BBC green-light a seventh series of the hit police show.
Line of Duty quickly became one of the BBC's most popular shows, as fans tuned in to see detectives Steve Arnott, played by Greenock -born Martin Compston, and Kate Fleming, played by Vicky McClure, fight corruption.
Speaking exclusively to Radio Times, Boyle revealed that bosses are still undecided about whether or not to renew the show for another season - but he has big ideas anyway.
His character was revealed as the Fourth Man, aka H – the corrupt copper with links to an organised crime group - but he still has plans to be involved in the project.
Boyle explained: "I said, 'What's the official line?' and [producer Simon Heath] said, 'Well, there isn't one.'
"So I said, 'I'll tell you the official line. Buckles is going to be involved, right? OK, AC12 are gonna get him in. He's gonna get whacked. OCGs are gonna get exposed. We're sorted.' And he just laughed."
Boyle isn't the only Line of Duty star who is up for more of the detective drama – Adrian Dunbar, who plays Superintendent Ted Hastings, previously told Radio Times and other press: "We've got to do another series.
"We've got to get onto Jed and say, 'Look, we've got to do one that's not like when we were in lockdown.
"We've got to do one where we're back on the ground, we're out there, we're in the city, we're having fun'.
"You know, it's a great city to have fun in, Belfast, so we really want to get back to doing that again."
Even Martin Compston gave a wee hint to fans the show could be back when accepting an award at last year's National Television Awards.
Speaking on stage, Martin said: “This means so much, like we started as a wee show on Wednesday night on BBC Two and now we’re the biggest drama on TV and it’s all because of the fans - we owe everything to you.
“We genuinely don’t take this for granted and who knows, maybe we’ll be back again.”
Line of Duty is available to stream on BBC iPlayer.
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