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UK police drama comes to Hollywood Suite


TORONTO — Hollywood Suite announced today it will be the exclusive Canadian broadcaster of season six of the award-winning UK police procedural drama Line of Duty when it premieres here in October.

To let viewers get caught up on the series, seasons one to five are currently available on Hollywood Suite On Demand.

The series has won 12 awards, including Best Drama Series from the Royal Television Society, and was also named one of the 80 best BBC shows of all time by The Daily Telegraph.

Produced for BBC One by World Productions, season six of Line of Duty is distributed internationally by ITV Studios.

Written and created by Jed Mercurio, the drama series follows the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anti-corruption unit. Set a year and a half after the events of the previous season, season six will see the return of Vicky McClure (Broadchurch), Adrian Dunbar (Ashes to Ashes) and Martin Compston (The Nest) reprising their roles as DI Kate Fleming, Superintendent Ted Hastings and DS Steve Arnott. New additions to the cast include Shalom Brune-Franklin (Our Girl) as DC Chloe Bishop and Kelly Macdonald (Boardwalk Empire) as DCI Joanne Davidson, the senior investigating officer on an unsolved murder case whose suspicious conduct attracts the attention of the AC-12 unit.

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