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EXCLUSIVE: Peacock is to be the U.S. home of ITV’s Jed Mercurio-produced thriller Trigger Point.  The high-pressured drama starring Line of Duty’s Vicky McClure and Life’s Adrian Lester follows the streamer’s acquisition of similar UK scripted shows such as BBC double The Capture and Vigil. The NBCU streamer will…

Line of Duty creator Jed Mercurio has said economic and geographical inequalities have led to a “polarized creative community” within the British TV and film sector. Speaking during a talk entitled Pigeonholed at the Creative Coalition Festival 2022, the celebrated UK showrunner said talented actors, execs and writers…

ITV’s upcoming adaptation of The Ipcress File “looks like a big Netflix show,” according to Director of Programmes Kevin Lygo, who said he wants the Len Deighton remake to reach beyond the “standard ITV viewer.” Speaking during a press viewing Friday, Lygo joked that it is “obviously incredibly annoying” when people…

Bodyguard creator Jed Mercurio and his HTM Television partner, Episodes and Flack producer Jimmy Mulville, have struck a first-look deal with 20th Television. It comes as the pair, who produce series such as BBC drama Bloodlands and ITV drama Trigger Point via HTM, are looking to expand into the U.S. Deadline revealed…

EXCLUSIVE: ITV has ordered a new crime drama series starring ER's Parminder Nagra from Line of Duty pair Maya Sondhi and Jed Mercurio. The British broadcaster has commissioned DI Ray, a Birmingham-set, four-part series that is centered around Rachita Ray, a police officer who takes on a case that forces her to…

British crime drama series Bloodlands, which stars James Nesbitt and comes from Bodyguard creator Jed Mercurio, has been renewed for a second season by the BBC. This comes after the four-part show became the British public broadcaster's biggest drama launch ever in Northern Ireland. It launched in the UK with 8.2M…

Now we’re sucking on diesel! The BBC has just released the first full trailer for Season 6 of its hit police corruption drama Line Of Duty. As usual, it looks like AC-12 will be involved in plenty of thrills, spills, and all-important interrogation interviews as they are drafted into action for a specially-extended…

EXCLUSIVE: Line of Duty and This Is England star Vicky McClure is to front a bomb squad drama for ITV, produced by HTM Television, the production company set up by Line of Duty and Bodyguard creator Jed Mercurio. Trigger Point is a six-part thriller, written by new writer Daniel Brierley, that follows counter…

Trainspotting and Broadwalk Empire actress Kelly Macdonald is to play the police officer suspected of corruption in season six of BBC One’s smash-hit crime drama Line Of Duty. Macdonald will star as Detective Chief Inspector Joanne Davidson, who draws the attention of anti-corruption unit AC-12 for her unconventional…

James Nesbitt has been cast as the lead in new BBC One detective drama Bloodlands, which represents the first commission for Bodyguard creator Jed Mercurio’s production company. Dubbed an “Irish noir,” Nesbitt will play Northern Irish police detective Tom Brannick who connects a suicide note with an infamous cold case…

Bodyguard creator Jed Mercurio is the latest high-profile name to sign up to Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman's Quibi. Mercurio, who also created BBC's hit police drama Line of Duty, is developing science fiction thriller Transmissions for the short-form service. The show is set at a remote radio observatory where a…

This time last year, Richard Madden was best known for his brutal death in the Red Wedding episode of Game of Thrones. But after the first episode of Jed Mercurio's six-part action drama Bodyguard aired, the Scottish actor became a household name practically overnight as David Budd, the buttoned-down personal…