A new series of Line of Duty is rumoured to be in the works at BBC, as main man Adrian Dunbar revealed that all is not as it seems with the officers at AC-12.
The nine-year wait to uncover the identity of the corrupt 'H', a criminal mastermind behind all the untimely deaths, ended with a character many viewers were disappointed with. But actor Adrian, who plays Ted Hastings, has shared that Buckells (Nigel Boyle) wasn't actually the mastermind 'H' in the end.
The actor has said that the search will continue next year in a new instalment of the show, and all will be revealed then. Adrian told Radio Times: "He’s not H. We just got the guy we could actually pin a charge on. We didn’t get H, we got Buckells, the patsy."
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Adrian believes that Chief Constable Philip Osborne (Owen Teale) was "probably" the man behind the madness, "unless there’s another twist and someone’s pulling his strings". He continued: "There’s been talk about a movie or a four-parter or two [episodes of] 90 minutes. We’d love to do it again. I’m really hoping something might happen next year.
"[Jed] has also devised a couple of templates as to how things could go”.
Back in May 2021, the finale for Line Of Duty season six drew in a record audience of 12.8 million viewers, but fans were so disappointed by the ending that the BBC even had to release a statement defending the show, saying they had "deliberately aimed to wrongfoot viewers’ expectations".
In a different interview, producer Jed Mercurio said: "Going into season six, we made the decision that we were going to reveal H, and then it was a case of, how do we make that the most surprising reveal?
“By going for this crossover between incompetence and corruption, rather than a criminal mastermind, it was a down ending. But it couldn’t be a predictable solution.”
Line of Duty starred our very own Martin Compston, who has been quiet on the front of the show returning. There has been no official statement on the popular series returning, but keep your eyes peeled over the next few days for more AC-12 news to be revealed.
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