Finally, it’s official: “Line of Duty” is coming back. Jed Mercurio’s hit UK police procedural will return to the BBC for a seventh season with Vicky McClure, Martin Compston and Adrian Dunbar all reprising their roles.
The new six-part series, created and written by Mercurio, will begin filming in Belfast in Spring 2026. Further cast will be announced in due course.
In the new season, AC-12 has been disbanded and rebranded the Inspectorate of Police Standards. Anticorruption work has never been more difficult and in this challenging climate Steve Arnott (Compston), Fleming (McClure) and Ted Hastings (Dunbar) are assigned their most sensitive case so far.
Detective Inspector Dominic Gough, a charismatic officer winning plaudits for a string of takedowns of organised crime, is accused of abusing his position of trust to act as a sexual predator. But is Gough’s case a deliberate distraction from a bigger threat still operating in the shadows? Mercurio says in a statement:
“Everyone involved in Line of Duty feels enormous gratitude to the show’s fans. We’re privileged to have had so many of you follow the ups and downs of AC-12 over six previous seasons and we couldn’t be more delighted to be returning for a seventh. Corruption in this country is supposed to have come to an end while Line of Duty was off air so I’ve been forced to use my imagination.”
The show last aired in 2021 and the sixth season finale drew an enormous 17 million viewers after 28 days in the UK, the biggest audience for a scripted drama series episode since modern records began in 2002.
World Productions and ITV Studios will produce the series for BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
Source: THR
