Martin Compston teases Line of Duty twist

Line of Duty\'s Martin Compston has teased a "bombshell" twist ahead of the show\'s sixth series.

The cast of the hit crime drama are set to return to set after production was halted due to the coronavirus pandemic, and the 36-year-old actor has hinted at an exciting development in the script.

Speaking to Radio Times magazine, he said: "For this year, I think we\'ve filmed [episodes] one and two, and as a cast, we\'ve got [the scripts for] three and four, and Jed [Mercurio] is writing five and six and we haven\'t seen them, and there\'s a bombshell at the end of four and I\'m desperate to find out what happens."

However, Martin and the rest of the cast are clueless about the show\'s biggest mystery of the organised crime group and the hidden identity of the villainous H.

He added: "We\'re just the same as everybody else and as far as H goes, as soon as we find him we\'re out a job."

\'Line of Duty\' creator Jed Mercurio recently revealed the show could be set to return to filming soon, as the producers need to finish production by the festive season in order for the new series to air in 2021.

He explained: "We are working towards a day [to resume shooting] and if we can get over all the hurdles we will be back filming.

"We\'d love to be on air next year, so we really have to make sure we complete our filming before Christmas."

While the series has gone on to be a huge success for the BBC, Jed admitted that some executives were not enthusiastic about the project when he first pitched it.

He said: "Maybe there were reservations that something about police corruption might be problematic for a mainstream audience.

"There\'s selective amnesia about things like that. Everybody, and every TV commissioner or TV executive, who was involved in rejecting \'Line Of Duty\' now pretends that it didn\'t happen.

"It\'s not that I seethe, we\'re in a fantastic position and I\'m certainly not bitter.

"But if you consider all the other projects that have been rejected over the years, the opportunities missed, and the ones that still are rejected, then of course it\'s disappointing.

"You worry that something that you\'ve worked on and you believe in is never going to see the light of day."