{"id":511228,"date":"2026-06-25T23:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/511228\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T23:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:45:11","slug":"adrian-dunbar-confirms-line-of-duty-series-7-filming-was-paused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/511228\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Dunbar confirms Line of Duty series 7 filming was paused"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filming for the upcoming new series of Line of Duty was paused in Belfast during the city’s recent violent unrest, Adrian Dunbar has said. The show<\/a> is currently in the process of shooting its seventh season, its first since 2021.<\/p>\n

Dunbar plays Ted Hastings in the acclaimed drama, which was filming in the Northern Irish capital when disorder broke out earlier in June.<\/p>\n

It was sparked by the stabbing of Stephen Ogilvie, for which a Sudanese man has been charged with attempted murder. In shocking scenes, a number of rioters attempted to identify houses occupied by immigrants, with properties attacked and cars set alight.<\/p>\n

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“We did have to pause for that, which… That wasn’t great,” Dunbar confirmed to RTE Radio 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He explained: “There’s a lot of stuff being stirred up in Ireland I think from outside of the country at the minute. And I think a lot of social media stirred a lot of pots here, and a lot of idle hands sitting around were able to get on the street.<\/p>\n

“I think the demonstration that happened a few days later by the people of Belfast shows you what the real sentiment in Belfast is towards immigrants. This is a small minority of people who are allowed to get on the street, so it was really unfortunate.”<\/p>\n

Line of Duty’s upcoming seventh run will be comprised of six episodes, and will see show boss Jed Mercurio penning all scripts.<\/p>\n

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Alongside Dunbar, Vicky McClure and Martin Compston are also set to return, with McClure showing off her script in an Instagram post<\/a> back in March.<\/p>\n

“Season seven, we’re back. Here’s the script, want to have a look?” she said as she waved it in the air. She then flicked the pages, but a wisely-placed emoji stopped any spoilers being given away.<\/p>\n

The new run will open as AC-12 has been disbanded and rebranded to the Inspectorate of Police Standards. According to an official synopsis, Steve Arnott (Compston), Kate Fleming (McClure) and Ted Hastings are then assigned to a sensitive case.<\/p>\n

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Shaun is an Evening News Editor at Digital Spy, with over a decade of experience reporting on all things pop culture. He has written for outlets including Metro<\/a>, Attitude<\/a>, Huffington Post, The Mirror<\/a>, Yahoo!, Pink News and Express Online<\/a>, specialising in TV, movies, soaps, music and LGBTQ+ issues. He is also a BAFTA Rocliffe-winning scriptwriter, having written episodes of the soap Hollyoaks, the official Steps musical Here & Now<\/a> and multiple Offie Award-nominated plays. He studied English Literature and Drama at the University of East Anglia, and will happily talk at length about Desperate Housewives to anyone who’ll listen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Filming for the upcoming new series of Line of Duty was paused in Belfast during the city’s recent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[137241,158296,635,234656,637,146,85,46,195853,636,234655,411],"class_list":["post-511228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-collection-latest-news","tag-collection-line-of-duty","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-644aea4b-624b-424c-bd0e-3a808dcd75b9","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-gb","tag-shorttitle-adrian-dunbar-confirms-recent-line-of-duty-filming-pause","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}