Line Of Duty season five: BBC reveals first look images for the new series of hit show

The drama returns to BBC One later this year
Back together: Superintendent Ted Hastings, played by Adrian Dunbar, with Sergeant Kate Fleming (Vicky McClure) and DS Steve Arnott (Martin Compston)
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Natasha Sporn21 February 2019

The BBC has revealed first-look images from the upcoming series of Line Of Duty, days after releasing a teaser trailer.

Fans of the police drama were on edge earlier this week after the broadcaster revealed series five, which is returning “very soon”, will focus on rooting out police corruption.

New images show prime suspects McQueen – played by Girlfriends star Rochenda Sandall – and Corbett, played by This Is England’s Stephen Graham, standing brazenly flanked by an army of co-workers.

A second image sees Superintendent Ted Hastings, played by Adrian Dunbar, reunite with Sergeant Kate Fleming (Vicky McClure) and DS Steve Arnott (Martin Compston) as they team up to weed out corruption from inside AC-12.

New recruits: McQueen and Corbett - played by Rochenda Sandall and Stephen Graham - star in series five
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A new 15-second teaser confirmed that the corruption within the force – and subsequent cover-up – will prove to be the unit’s hardest task yet.

Not much else is known about the plot, apart from the addition of Graham’s “Balaclava Man”, but writer Jed Mercurio teased that the new series will “feature things they haven’t done before”.

Filming got underway last September in Belfast, just as the nation was getting gripped by Mercurio’s other hit drama Bodyguard.

The six-part original broke records with live and streamed audiences as millions tuned in weekly, culminating in the show becoming the most successful of 2018 for the channel .

Richard Madden has since won a Golden Globe for his role as PC David Budd, as well as seeing his odds linking him with the soon-to-be vacant James Bond role slashed .

Madden starred opposite Ashes to Ashes star Keeley Hawes in the Sunday night hit, which is available outside the UK on Netflix.

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Line Of Duty will return to BBC One later this year

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