Line of Duty to end with series seven reveals writer Jed Mercurio – but it depends if people like season six
LINE of Duty will end with series seven – as long as season six proves popular with fans.
Writer Jed Mercurio is hoping the BBC will commission another series after series 6 – but if they do, it’ll be the last.
Series 5 is currently airing, and series 6 has already been commissioned.
The show has traditionally taken two years between each series, and series three, four and five were made in the knowledge that they would definitely not be the last.
Speaking at the BFI and Radio Times Television Festival 2019, Jed said: “Once series five has finished airing we’ll have a conversation with the BBC, with a view to whether there’s a possibility to series seven being commissioned.
“But we definitely know we’ve got series six.
“The only reason is that there are a lot of loose ends to tie up, and we couldn’t take the risk of getting it commissioned later on.
“So if we didn’t know that we could go beyond this series, then we would have to approach it in a way that concluded things.”
Jed also confirmed that he hasn’t started writing the upcoming series, but he has a clear idea of the direction it will take.
He said: “There are certain things that we know we have to pick up, in terms of the over-arching story, but work wouldn’t even start until we decided what the production schedule was.
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“That is something that has to be determined with the broadcaster and also cast availability, location availability – all those things end up being part of quite a complicated analysis.”
Jed also said that fans won’t get the answers they’re looking for this series.
He said: “I think there are different degrees of resolution and when you have a returning series what you’re aiming to do is to resolve certain things but create an interesting direction that comes out of that new information.
“Irrespective of whether something gets resolved or not, what you’re trying to achieve is that it gives you forward momentum into finding out something different, or re-examining the assumptions that have gone into something.”
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