The producers behind the hit TV drama Line of Duty have hinted that the bumbling villain DCI Ian Buckells who was unveiled as the Fourth Man may have been inspired by Boris Johnson.
After fans across the nation finally discovered who the elusive H was on Sunday, the BBC drama s producers, World Productions, retweeted a series of posts that appeared to draw comparisons between the bungling stooge and the Prime Minister.
It came after Line of Duty viewers across the nation described being left underwhelmed and disappointed as the nail-biting series finale drew to a close - and the mysterious antagonist H was revealed to be none other than Ian Buckells.
Line of Duty fans convinced blundering Ian Buckells is based on Boris Johnson
Line of Duty creator Jed Mercurio is an outspoken critic of Boris Johnson and fans of the police drama have drawn similarities between Ian Buckells and the Prime Minister
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Line Of Duty star who plays H: ‘I’ve been sitting on it for a long time’
Updated: 03/05/2021, 10:50 am
Line Of Duty’s DSU Ian Buckells (Nigel Boyle) – (C) World Productions – Photographer: Steffan Hill
The actor unveiled as Line Of Duty’s mysterious “H” has said he was “buzzing with excitement” on finding out his character was the talked-about figure.
During Sunday night’s finale of the BBC One series, DSU Ian Buckells, played by Nigel Boyle, was unmasked as corrupt police officer H.
Boyle, who grew up in Birmingham, said: “I was buzzing with excitement! I never suspected it because I know how Jed (Mercurio) leads people down the garden path with really good red herrings, so I didn’t really pay too much attention to things like Buckells’ golf clubs etc, but clearly I should have done! I’d fully bought into the idea that Buckells was low on competence levels but looking back it all makes sense!”
It’s not often TV serves up a submarine drama, but UK drama
Vigil has dropped its first trailer.
The 6 part series, which stars Suranne Jones (
Doctor Foster, Gentleman Jack), as two seemingly disparate events – the disappearance of a Scottish fishing trawler and a death aboard a Trident nuclear submarine – bring the police into direct conflict with the navy and British security services.
The series from World Productions (
Line of Duty, Bodyguard, The Pembrokeshire Murders) is written and created by Tom Edge (
Strike, The Crown,
Judy) and also features Rose Leslie, Shaun Evans, Martin Compston and Paterson Joseph.
It will screen on both Foxtel / Binge in 2021, while SBS has also picked up Free to Air rights which will follow sometime later.