With its jargon-heavy dialogue and whiplash twists, police drama
Line Of Duty has always taken big risks. And they’ve paid off. As the massively anticipated sixth season arrives,
Empire gathers the main players past and present for the ultimate interrogation.
When
Line Of Duty began there was, it’s fair to say, little fanfare. Season 1 appeared on BBC Two in 2012, and with its edgy, frequently brutal exploration of police corruption, it built a decent audience of almost four million. Nine years later, on the eve of the sixth series airing,
Line Of Duty is the BBC’s most popular returning drama, with 12.69 million gripped by the 2019 Series 5 finale.
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Line of Duty has been one hell of a ride. Whether you loved the finale or hated it – or, somewhat remarkably, were ambivalent about it – it s hard to deny that the show created a kind of nationwide furore where had we all been in offices with water coolers, it would have been the only thing people were talking about.
Line of Duty took place at the universal water cooler – Twitter. Everything that had happened in all five series and six episodes leading up to the finale was sort of erased from our collective consciousness when the big H/Fourth Man reveals happened.
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Here s everything you need to know about Line of Duty series six, including how to watch it and how and where to binge watch the previous seasons.
Line of Duty release date: When is Line of Duty season 6 out?
Following months of delays due to the current global pandemic, the sixth series of Line of Duty aired on Sunday, 21 March 2021 on the BBC and BBC iPlayer in the UK.