Police thriller Line of Responsibility’s tens of millions of followers will likely be hoping studies within the UK media of the present’s return are greater than wishful considering.
The BBC drama about police corruption and the officers charged with searching down the malefactors completed after six sequence and an enormous viewers for its finale in 2021. However some followers expressed their disappointment that the grand denouement – the identification of mysterious villain ‘H’ – did not dwell as much as viewers expectations.
Now The Solar newspaper studies that author Jed Mercurio and three principal stars Martin Compston, Vicky McClure and Adrian Dunbar have dedicated to return for a seventh sequence, to begin filming in January 2026.
The newspaper quotes a TV insider confirming :
“The BBC nearly instantly requested extra episodes to proceed the story, however the success of the present meant Vicky, Martin and Adrian had been immediately snapped up for different tasks.
“However after a number of conferences with Jed [Mercurio, creator and writer] and the manufacturing crew, they’ve lastly managed to clear house of their calendars subsequent 12 months to commit to creating the present.”
Deadline has reached out to Mercurio for remark.
The hit drama, which debuted in 2012 and moved from the smaller viewers BBC2 to the flagship channel BBC1 in 2017, made stars of McClure, Compston and particularly Dunbar, who gained an enormous fanbase for his ad-libbed use of Northern Irish sayings, together with his triumphant “now we’re sucking diesel” when investigations gave the impression to be going properly.
The 2021 finale drew a home viewers of 13.1million viewers, making it the highest-rated UK drama since information started in 2002. The present can now be seen internationally on Netflix and different platforms.
