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Actors and Actresses
This month, the sixth season of the wildly popular British police procedural Line of Duty made its American debut on BritBox. Each series features a guest star who finds themselves in hot water with the show’s anti-corruption unit helmed by Superintendent Ted Hastings (Adrian Dunbar). Joining the ranks of
Drama
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
Mystery
The only constant in streaming is change. Once upon a time, Netflix had all the TV series and movies from multiple outside production studios. Now, it is losing the last of the Disney and Warner Bros. Pictures vaults to Disney+ and HBO Max, respectively, while NBC/Universal and Paramount consider
Mystery
It took Bodyguard hitting big on Netflix before American TV networks took Line of Duty seriously. The U.K. crime procedural became a phenomenon over the first four seasons, making it Jed Mercurio's first major hit on the BBC. But Line of Duty's relegation to BBC
Exclusive
Popular BBC police drama Line of Duty's fifth season dropped on Acorn TV this week and I had the opportunity to chat with the show’s creator/writer Jed Mercurio. Learn how an internal medicine physician became the showrunner of the highest rated U.K. program of 2019
Drama
One of the biggest surprise hits of last fall was the BBC/Netflix co-production, Bodyguard, which made an instant action hero of former Game of Thrones star Richard Madden. Though the ending was controversial, the series itself was not just arresting from the word go, but riveting as every episode