Martin Compston has teased the possibility of a future for 'Line of Duty'.
Martin Compston as DI Steve Arnott
The 38-year-old actor - who played Detective Steve Arnott in the police drama from 2012 until 2021 - has weighed in on speculation about the chances of more series following the season six finale, and he remains hopeful at the idea of a potential reprise.
Asked whether there was a chance ‘Line of Duty’ could return one day, he told Radio Times magazine: "We’re so delighted that after all that time, people still want us.
"If Jed [Mercurio, the creator] thinks there’s a story, we’d all love to work together again. There’s always ideas, but nothing concrete,"
Bosses of the show - which was written and directed by Jed for the BBC - previously teased season seven, but weren’t sure if it would happen.
Before the arrival of season six, Jed said: "We’re in a situation where it's not entirely clear that there will be a seventh series. We would hope there could be.
"But we're having to do our planning coming out of COVID, and a whole bunch of other things... these things aren't guaranteed at all now.
"A lot of it depends on the key creatives – that's me and the main actors – finding new stories to tell within that universe. 'Line of Duty' may have reached 'the Chandrasekhar Limit', at which a mass collapses under its own gravitational force."
But Adrian Dunbar, who plays Superintendent Ted Hastings, added: "We've got to do another series.
"We've got to get onto Jed and say, 'Look, we've got to do one that's not like when we were in lockdown. We've got to do one where we're back on the ground, we're out there, we're in the city, we're having fun'.
"You know, it's a great city to have fun in, Belfast, so we really want to get back to doing that again."
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