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The Responder: everything we know about the new BBC drama that will fill the Line of Duty void
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Line of Duty only just ended but already it has left an Eastfield Depot-sized hole in our lives. Do they expect us to simply throw away our Who is H? notebooks? And what are we supposed to do on Sunday nights? The good news is that while we wait for news about a possible seventh series of the hit show (fingers crossed), the BBC has just released details and a first look at their new police drama
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First Look: BBC Police Drama The Responder Stars Martin Freeman (EXCLUSIVE)
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BBC has unveiled the first image from new police drama “The Responder,” starring Martin Freeman.
Written by ex-police officer Tony Schumacher and made by Dancing Ledge Productions (“The Salisbury Poisonings”), Freeman stars as Chris, a crisis-stricken, morally compromised urgent response officer who is forced to take on a new rookie partner (Adelayo Adedayo).
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Together, they realize that survival in a high-pressure, relentless night-time world will depend on them either helping or destroying each other.
The BBC drama, which was unveiled last year as part of a slate from first-time TV writers working with the public broadcaster, is billed as “holding a mirror up” to the extremes of life on the front line of British policing. The gritty police genre is a big hit with local audiences, who lapped up the latest season of BBC�
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The BBC and Dancing Ledge Productions have started filming The Responder, in Liverpool.
Written by former police officer, Tony Schumacher, it stars Martin Freeman as a “crisis-stricken, morally compromised, unconventional urgent response officer.” My fantasy casting when I was writing the character of Chris in the Responder was Martin Freeman,” said Schumacher.
“Seeing that fantasy become reality is beyond exciting. Martin is one of the great British actors. He brings such a well of talent and humanity that breathes magic into the words I ve been lucky enough to give him. I can’t wait for audiences to get to see his performance in this role, it’s one I feel very lucky to have had a front row seat for.”