Line of Duty
| Line of Duty | |
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| Genre | |
| Created by | Jed Mercurio |
| Written by | Jed Mercurio |
| Directed by |
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| Starring | |
| Theme music composer | Carly Paradis |
| Ending theme | "Line Of Duty End Theme" |
| Composer(s) | Carly Paradis |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 17 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Stephen Wright (BBC) Simon Heath (World Productions) Jed Mercurio (Series 2–3) |
| Producer(s) |
Jed Mercurio (Series 1) Peter Norris (Series 2–3) |
| Location(s) |
Birmingham (Series 1) Belfast (Series 2–3) |
| Cinematography | Ruairi O'Brien(Series 1–2) Peter Robertson(Series 3) |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | World Productions |
| Distributor | Content Media |
| Release | |
| Original network |
BBC Two (2012-16) BBC One (2017–) |
| Picture format | 16:9 1080i |
| Audio format | Dolby Digital |
| Original release | 26 June 2012 – present |
| External links | |
| BBC Two website | |
| Production website | |
Line of Duty is a British police procedural television series created by Jed Mercurio that premiered on 26 June 2012. It is the most popular drama series broadcast on BBC Two in the multichannel era and is a winner of the Royal Television Society Award for Best Drama Series.Line of Duty was included in a list of the Top 50 BBC Two shows of all-time, in a list of the 80 best BBC shows of all time and was the highest ranked current series in a list of the best cop shows of all time.
The first series was BBC Two's best-performing drama series in 10 years, with a consolidated audience of 4.1 million viewers. The drama was recommissioned for a second series and the first episode was broadcast on 12 February 2014. The second series achieved widespread public and critical acclaim, and on 8 April 2014, the BBC commissioned two more series.
In an interview on 28 April 2016, creator Jed Mercurio said that a fourth series would begin filming in the autumn and that "it will be delivered for 2017".
In the United States, the first series was aired on Hulu in August 2012 as an exclusive series.
Series one and two were created and written by Jed Mercurio and produced by World Productions, on behalf of BBC Two. David Caffrey and Douglas Mackinnon directed series one. Mackinnon was retained as Director for series two's first three episodes, whilst Daniel Nettheim directed series two's last three episodes. Mercurio produced series one and acted as executive producer for series two, with Peter Norris taking over as producer for series two.
The police refused to co-operate with the programme's producers. Consequently, the production team was advised both by retired police officers and anonymously by serving officers; production also made use of anonymous police blogs.
Series one was filmed in Birmingham (including pub interiors in the Queens Arms) and series two and three in Belfast by BBC Northern Ireland, per the end credits, though the city is not identified in the script in either series – set dressings and props indicate that the unnamed city is Birmingham (maps of Birmingham appear on walls, and telephone numbers use an 0121 area code). A photo gallery of exterior scenes from series two shows the 4th Street Station on Ormeau Avenue in Belfast.
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