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On paper, Ridley looks like a winning formula: take actor Adrian Dunbar, already a beloved household name in the U.K. for playing the self-righteous Irish-Catholic head of the internal corruption unit in Line of Duty, and give him his own detective show to anchor. Dunbar comes ready-made with a
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Though D.I. Ray won the right to air as part of the 2024 Summer of Mysteries, getting a double punch lead in of Professor T Season 3 and Grantchester Season 9, its main rival, Ridley, also gets to return to PBS for Season 2. Once again, the Adrian Dunbar-led
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When Ridley was initially announced in 2021, it was pretty apparent that ITV was aiming to land itself a new long-lived detective series, the kind that could easily run ten seasons until it achieved the sort of ubiquitous status of a Vera or a Father Brown. To that end, they
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The Ridley cold open features Ridley fast asleep on the couch, dreaming the house is on fire. It was only a dream; the man responsible for the fire, Michael Flannery, is locked up, unable to see his mother in her final hours. It's too late now; she'
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Ridley starts at the jazz club again, but this time it's not Adrian Dunbar showing off his golden tones. Instead, it's Eve Marbury (two-time Olivier Award winner for musicals Carousel and My Fair Lady Joanna Riding) who kicks off this week's story by having
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Ridley continues to go hard on the jazzy aspect of the show, with an opening murder set to the background music playing at my local Starbucks this morning. That melds so gently into the opening credits I forgot to hit the "Skip Intro" button. Not to worry, there&
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On paper, Ridley seemed like a show already a home run before it debuted. The series stars Line of Duty's Adrian Dunbar as the titular Alex Ridley, a retired detective whose former protege, DI Carol Farman (Bronagh Waugh), brings him back in a consulting role to help solve
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American audiences who tune in to PBS' new series Ridley will be able to watch with confidence that it won't be the series only run of episodes. ITV confirmed the show had been renewed for a second season with only a few days until the show'
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The thing about a good police procedural is that it can go on forever because crime never ends. There are always cases to solve, mysteries to uncover, and a deep-seated hunger in the public psyche for the sense of justice and order that provides among the chaos of daily life.
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For Line of Duty fans who need more Adrian Dunbar in their lives, the announcement that he would star in a new ITV detective series, Ridley, was welcome news. But it wasn't clear if the show would cross the pond or where it would end up. BritBox seemed
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PBS' Masterpiece has shaped American views of British television for two generations now, starting with shows like Upstairs Downstairs and I Claudius in the 1970s. But it was the program Mystery! that's done the most for what people think of when they think of U.K. police
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When Line of Duty first started airing in 2012 on BBC Two, it was a hit right out of the gate. Written and created by Jed Mercurio, it was the latest in a string of high-profile projects from the writer that ran the gamut from the ultra-realistic hospital drama Cardiac