Our ultimate TV guide to filling the Line of Duty-shaped hole in your life Rod McPhee May 3rd 2021, 3:18 pm
THERE is no need to go cold turkey now Line Of Duty has come to an end.
Choose from a long list of dramas and documentaries to get your fix of gripping police work. BBC
9 Here’s our ultimate TV guide to filling the Line of Duty-shaped hole in your life
And there are also shows featuring some of your favourite cast members from the BBC’s cop thriller.
Whether they are already available on catch up services or about to start on terrestrial channels, there is plenty to choose from when you start missing the presence of Jed Mercurio’s masterpiece.
Between the Lines has been screening on BBC iPlayer (some episodes still available)
You may have been aware of a kerfuffle in the press and on social media a few weeks ago about an interview the television scriptwriter Jed Mercurio gave to GQ magazine in the run-up to the broadcast on BBC1 of the sixth series of his police corruption drama Line of Duty (2012-). Mercurio used language you wouldn’t want your mother to hear you using to describe a (young, female) journalist who had had the nerve to express disappointment in the programme’s fifth series.
His crossness might better have been directed at many of his dedicated fans: what I’ve noticed in reactions to recent series is the rise of an ironic, meta tone, treating the series as an endlessly comic, teasing challenge to viewers’ credulity – the oohs and aaahs at the latest scarcely plausible revelation mingling with oohs and aahs at the stodgy sexiness of Adrian Dunbar’s Superintendent Ted Hastings, with his hushed
Beer and housing: a perfect pair. Soon, a Pierce County mom and her boys will move in
News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. 1 hr ago Matt Driscoll, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.)
Apr. 23 The kids haven t even seen the new place yet.
Their mom is certain they ll love it. I think they ll be excited, Elaine told me on Tuesday, one of the 28-year-old bank teller s days off.
For the last four years, Elaine who asked to be identified by a different name to maintain her family s privacy has been living with her two young sons at her mom s house in Puyallup. Sharing a single bedroom, it s been a circumstance of necessity for the single mother. When rent at her former apartment climbed too high, Elaine and her kids were priced out, becoming statistics of the regional housing affordability crisis we hear so much about.
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Tuesday, 13th April 2021 at 7:00 am
Bridget Jones’s Diary – the iconic British film based on Helen Fielding’s novel of the same name – turns 20 today, with the rom-com starring Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant having made its cinematic debut back in 2001.
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With this year marking such a big anniversary, I dove into the Bridget Jones Cinematic Universe (the BJCU if you will) and revisited its many, many characters for a
RadioTimes.com official ranking of all your Daniel Cleavers, your Unas, your Mr Fitzherberts and your Shazzers.
24. ‘Uncle’ Geoffrey
Played by: James Faulkner
The lecherous, bum-pinching Geoffrey lands himself at the bottom of our ranking, which should come as no surprise to anyone considering he’s arguably the film franchise’s biggest creep. Married to Una, the best friend of Bridget’s mum Pam, Geoffrey is described by Bridget as “someone who insists I call him uncle when he gropes my a e” (ew) and generally exude