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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Vicky Jessop

The rise and rise of Luther: how Idris Elba’s troubled detective show conquered television

Strange as it may seem, Luther’s creator Neil Cross doesn’t concern himself overmuch with the show’s popularity – in fact, he prefers to avoid it altogether.

“Most of my friends – those friends that I have, which are very few – the ones who know what I do don’t care,” he tells me. “I live in a kind of emotional bubble. And I am not on social media… so I have a very limited sense of Luther the show as a thing.

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