Line of Duty’s Adrian Dunbar teases series six ‘in couple of months’ – but still has concerns that could spell disaster

LINE of Duty star Adrian Dunbar has teased series 6 could drop 'in couple of months.'

However, the 62-year-old still has one big concern that could spell disaster.

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Filming began back in March 2020 but was put on hold due to coronavirus, but the cast returned to work six months later in September.

Adrian, who plays Superintendent Ted Hastings, spoke about the popular BBC drama on The Graham Norton Radio Show.

For anyone that needs a refresher or for any new fans of the show, Dunbar said: "The story is this: first of all BBC One are repeating season two from next Saturday night.

"Beyond that then of course we have finished. We started, like everybody else we stopped in March because of lockdown. It will go out, I suppose, within the next couple of months, I'd imagine."

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The Northern Irishman opened up on the challenges of filming the upcoming series, which is sure to pose another mammoth task for the AC-12 team, also including Steve Arnott (Martin Compston) and Kate Fleming (Vicky McClure).

He explained: "We were shooting out of sequence all over the place, so it was kind of tricky getting your head around what all the time is a very complicated story. 

"Is it going to be up to the same standards? We're on tenterhooks waiting for it to come out."

Each season of Line of Duty has a new bent copper that the AC-12 team look to take down and Adrian stated which star will playing the lead in series six.

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"It's turned into an event of course because people do watch it in real time, because of the storyline, because of the twists and turns," he added.

"We all tend to do that, sit back and go 'here we go'. So, fingers crossed. Kelly Macdonald is playing the lead this time, and yeah it's coming soon."

MacDonald, 44, known for her performances in Nanny McPhee, Boardwalk Empire and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, will play Detective Chief Inspector Joanne Davidson, the senior investigating officer of an unsolved murder, who raises suspicions at AC-12.

Official pics show a somber Macdonald posing at the potentially crooked DCI Davidson inside AC-12's offices and also outside the police station.

Line of Duty series six will hit screens in March 2021