Robert Carlyle steps into Line of Duty as BBC releases first look at S7
FIRST LOOK: Robert Carlyle and Tom Weston-Jones join Martin Compston, Vicky McClure and Adrian Dunbar in the seventh season of Line of Duty, which will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in 2027 after filming wrapped in Belfast earlier this year.
Compston, McClure and Dunbar reprise their roles as Steve Arnott, Kate Fleming and Ted Hastings, as the show finds AC-12 disbanded and now rebranded as the Inspectorate of Professional Standards. Anticorruption work has never been more difficult and in this challenging climate, the trio are assigned their most sensitive case so far.
Carlyle is the guest lead as Police Constable Shaun Massie – a Specialist Rifle Officer (SRO), a veteran marksman, operating with Tactical Operations Unit 7 (TO-7) to take down Organised Crime Groups. A gruff loner, Massie keeps himself to himself, but when his boss, TO-7’s commanding officer DI Dominic Gough, is accused of being a sexual predator, Massie’s otherwise detached demeanour changes drastically.
Weston-Jones stars as Detective Inspector Gough – a charismatic officer who has won plaudits for a string of takedowns of organised crime. Gough is accused of abusing his position of trust to act as a sexual predator. But is his case a deliberate distraction from a bigger threat still operating in the shadows?
Gough’s TO-7 team also includes Laura Aikman as DC Paula Beckman, Levi Brown as DC Luke Tobin and Amy Leigh Hickman as DC Nira Rashid.
Mark Bonnar (former Deputy Chief Constable Mike Dryden), Owen Teale (Chief Constable Philip Osborne), Perry Fitzpatrick (DS Chris Lomax) and Christina Chong (DI Nicky Rogerson) all return for season seven.
Additional new cast members include David Calder, Steven Elder, Dominic Mafham, Aimee Powell and Naomi Yang.
The six-part series is made by World Productions (Bodyguard, Vigil). It is written and created by Jed Mercurio, who also directed episodes 4-6. Jennie Darnell directed the first three episodes, and the producers are Ken Horn and Richard Burnell.
The executive producers are Jed Mercurio, Simon Heath for World Productions and Nick Lambon for the BBC.
ITV Studios is the distributor.
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