Line Of Duty to return for a seventh series, star of BBC show confirms

Christina Chong reveals she's been asked backmost for the adjacent instalment of the deed constabulary drama

Mother of God! Line Of Duty volition beryllium backmost for a seventh series.

One of its stars, Christina Chong, says the formed person been asked astir their availability for aboriginal successful the year. The histrion who played DI Nicky Rogerson successful bid 2 and six of the BBC show, fto gaffe astatine a Hollywood Saturn Awards past week.

Asked astir speech of a return, Christina, 41, said: “So I person been asked astir a season, is it seven? Yeah. Potentially Nicola Rogerson volition beryllium backmost for play seven.” Last twelvemonth Adrian Dunbar, who plays Supt Ted Hastings, said writer Jed Mercurio was moving connected a caller script. “He is writing… we haven’t got a publication connected the table yet,” helium said.

Series six of the bent coppers saga astir anti-corruption portion AC-12 ended successful 2021 with the unmasking of seemingly bumbling DCI Ian Buckells (Nigel Boyle) arsenic organised transgression kingpin H.

Christina's quality archetypal appeared successful Line of Duty bid 2 backmost successful 2014. Her character, who works successful the Major Violent Crime unit, became a emotion involvement for DS Steve Arnott and became an informant for him and AC-12. She said the BBC programme’s planetary occurrence “changed her life.” “I didn’t deliberation it was going to beryllium arsenic large but I inactive to this time get recognised from that," she said. "It lifted my illustration different level, and moving with Jed Mercurio, who’s go a immense occurrence internationally arsenic well.”

The actress, who has besides appeared successful Black Mirror, Doctor Who, and 24: Live Another Day, is excited to reunite with Vicky McClure, Martin Compston and Adrian Dunbar. "I worked with Martin Compton connected a fearfulness film. It's 1 of my archetypal jobs. I deliberation backmost successful the time it was called Red Mist oregon Freak Dog. The sanction changed. So erstwhile I spot Martin, it is astir similar a homecoming wherever it's like, wow, you were determination erstwhile I archetypal started out. And everyone is truthful beauteous connected that set. And adjacent Jed, I retrieve past clip I went backmost during the pandemic, Jed wasn't meant to beryllium astatine set, but helium came to acceptable to accidental hi. And I was like, wow, that's truthful nice.”

Chong hopes that fans volition not get to spot the existent individuality of H truthful that the amusement continues beyond 2026 for a “selfish reason”. “I don't deliberation they should, due to the fact that past that means Line Of Duty volition beryllium over," she said.

She besides opened up connected however her vocation is exploding successful Hollywood acknowledgment to a immense relation arsenic La'an Noonien Singh successful the Paramount+ archetypal bid Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. She has received immense acclaim and grant nominations and is present plotting a euphony vocation excessively by signaling her archetypal medium with Ed Sheeran collaborators.

“I americium presently moving connected an album. Jake Gosling is producing who works with Ed Sheeran. I'm really successful Nashville adjacent week signaling and conscionable loving it. Star Trek brought maine that, my singing for it. And truthful my imagination is to extremity up astatine the O2 successful the UK with a gig. There'll beryllium an EP astir apt coming retired with play 3 (0f Star Trek). I americium co-writing everything.”

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