Duty calls..again

Cop drama back next year & stars can't wait to reunite

- NICOLA METHVEN AND JEN PHARO

LINE of Duty will return to BBC1 next year for a much-anticipated seventh series - five years after 17million viewers watched the 2021 finale to discover the identity of H.

Starring Adrian Dunbar, Vicky McClure and Martin Compston as Ted Hastings, Kate Fleming and Steve Arnott, the hit drama tells the story of fictional police anti-corruption unit AC-12, which investigates bent coppers.

In the new series, the unit has been ditched and rebranded as the Inspectorate of Police Standards.

The plot will see the trio and their colleagues tasked with their most sensitive case so far - at a time when anti-corruption work has never been harder.