The new season of Line of Duty will begin filming in Belfast later this month, with Mrs Biggs star Daniel Mays playing AC-12’s “most dangerous adversary yet”. Mays has been cast as Sergeant Danny Waldron, the highly proficient leader of an Armed Response Unit whose unpredictable behaviour is becoming a threat to colleagues and suspects. … >
BBC Two has ordered a third and fourth series of crime drama Line Of Duty. Series 3 and Series 4 will each comprise of six 60-minute episodes and will feature two new police corruption stories. Line of Duty‘s second series concluded last month with the final episode drawing an audience of 4.1 million viewers. Creator … >
To celebrate Acorn Media’s release of Line of Duty Series 2 on DVD on Monday 24 March, we’ve got copies of the DVD to give away to three of our Twitter followers! For a chance to win, just follow @CultBoxTV on Twitter and tweet the following text: Follow @CultBoxTV and RT for a chance to … >
Series 2 of Line of Duty didn’t just come to a satisfying conclusion, it drew a big line in the sand and dared the rest of TV drama to cross it. Quite right too: good TV should leave a mark, just as it should also leave us speechless. And what is there to say about … >
Line of Duty creator Jed Mercurio has revealed that he hopes the police corruption drama will “run and run”. The second series concludes next week on BBC Two. Mercurio told Radio Times: “It’s a terrific show to work on. As a writer, particularly one who has done returning series, I have no plans to hand … >
Last year 3D TVs were all the rage. This year it’s concave 4K OLEDs. Next year your TV will probably be so advanced it’ll be too busy cooking your dinner for you to watch it. But still TV manufacturers are behind the times, because they haven’t yet managed to construct a set that can fully … >
Lately, among newspaper columnists and keyboard jockeys in the Fourth Estate gallop, there’s a tendency to shoehorn in a mention of a popular show that they’re also totes into too, honest, in an attempt to let you know they’re relevant. Popular namedrops include True Detective, Borgen, House of Cards and, yes, they’re good shows. But … >
Jed Mercurio’s police corruption drama Line Of Duty is back for a second season. > Read our spoiler-free preview. Detective Inspector Lindsay Denton is played by Keeley Hawes, Detective Sergeant Steve Arnott by Martin Compston, Detective Constable Kate Fleming by Vicky McClure, Superintendent Ted Hastings by Adrian Dunbar, Deputy Chief Constable Mike Dryden by Mark … >
Don’t know about you, but prison has never looked like a fun, ‘good times and noodle salad’ place to be.
It was hinted at in the first series of Line of Duty what happens to coppers who spend time at Her Majesty’s pleasure and, with Lindsay Denton remanded in custody, we see first-hand. Unsurprisingly, it’s not near as jolly as an episode of Porridge. Unless we missed that episode where Godber ate shit…
At its present rate, by the finale of Line of Duty’s second series we at CultBox are going to be left so dumbfounded by the breakneck twists and dramatic turns that the only way we’ll be able to communicate in the way of a review will be with a .GIF of that Dramatic Chipmunk and ‘FIVE STARS’ beneath it.