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Jed Mercurio

September 2022

  • James Nesbitt and Charlene McKenna in Bloodlands.

    TV review
    Bloodlands series two review – James Nesbitt’s meaningful stares are laugh-out-loud funny

    After the first season’s big reveal, there’s no suspense left in this crime drama’s plot. So instead, the actors fall back on pained looks and sly side-eyes – until it becomes unwittingly hilarious

May 2022

  • Police, camera, action … Parminder Nagra as DI Rachita Ray and Maanuv Thiara as PS Tony Khatri.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Parminder Nagra stars in new cold-case drama DI Ray

    Written by Line of Duty’s Maya Sondhi and produced by Jed Mercurio, this police procedural has a fresh perspective. Plus: The Split continues. Here’s what to watch this evening

April 2022

  • ‘We all do wonder where we fit in’ … Parminder Nagra as DI Rachita Ray.

    ‘Why can’t they just call it murder?’ The TV show finally facing up to racist cops

    DI Ray, a new thriller about a ‘culturally sensitive homicide unit’, tackles racism in the force. Star Parminder Nagra and writer Maya Sondhi talk about decoding police-speak, working with Jed Mercurio and the perils of tokenism

February 2022

  • Ben Whishaw as doctor,  Josie Walker as nurse, Hannah Onslow as patient

    TV review
    This Is Going to Hurt review – Ben Whishaw stars in a realism-packed adaptation

    The BBC’s take on NHS doctor Adam Kay’s memoir pulls no punches in portraying the difficulties of life as a junior medic – be it fatigue, bullying or falling asleep at the wheel

January 2022

  • Vicky McClure in Trigger Point

    TV review
    Trigger Point review – utterly preposterous … but what a blast

    Vicky McClure and Adrian Lester star in this slick police thriller full of bomb factories and banter. Just go in thinking CSI: Peckham or Line of Bomb Duty and you’ll have a great time

November 2021

  • Sarah Hughes, with her children Ruby and Oisin.

    Screenwriter Jed Mercurio to speak at inaugural Sarah Hughes lecture

    TV’s treatment of police corruption and of healthcare will be discussed at an event in memory of the Observer journalist

July 2021

  • 7 and 8

    Forget AC-12, meet DS-5: Jed Mercurio on his new graphic novel Sleeper

    Fresh from the record-breaking Line of Duty, Mercurio has created a conspiracy thriller set in the 24th-century, with co-writer Prasanna Puwanarajah and illustrator Coke Navarro

May 2021

  • Episode still from series six of Line of Duty.

    Line of Duty finale draws record 12.8 million UK TV audience

    BBC hints it is open to another series, despite muted response to last episode with word ‘disappointing’ trending
  • Vicky McClure as DI Kate Fleming and Martin Compston as DI Steve Arnott in Line of Duty.

    TV review
    Line of Duty review – an audacious, deranged, reverse-ferreting finale

    Series six still reliably delivered the thrills, but with plot holes, agitprop and moments that came close to self-parody, Line of Duty is not quite what it was
  • Line of DUty

    Line of Duty: episode-by-episode
    Line of Duty series six episode seven – open thread

    The hunt for H picked up the pace, but could our heroes bring down the ‘bent coppers’ once and for all?

April 2021

  • line of duty

    Line of Duty: episode-by-episode
    Line of Duty series six episode six – open thread

    There’s just one more episode left, but how much more tragedy and corruption can Hastings and the gang survive?
  • Anna Maxwell Martin

    Line of Duty: episode-by-episode
    Line of Duty series six episode five – open thread

    Come and discuss the return of Carmichael, the precarious future of Hastings and the uncertain future of Jo Davidson
  • Steve Arnott

    Line of Duty: episode-by-episode
    Line of Duty series six episode four – open thread

    Interrogations, convoys and OCGs – Jed Mercurio delivers a ‘best of episode’ that will tick all the boxes for long-time fans

March 2021

  • Vicky McClure and Kelly Macdonald as DI Kate Fleming and DCI Jo Davidson.

    TV review
    Line of Duty review – bent-copper bashers prepare to suck diesel

  • Martin Compston by Mark Harrison

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Martin Compston: 'Steve Arnott thinks he's Sherlock Holmes, one of the great detectives'

February 2021

  • James Nesbitt and Charlene McKenna in Bloodlands.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Bloodlands; Unforgotten; Blitz Spirit With Lucy Worsley; Grayson's Art Club

    James Nesbitt looks understandably hard-pressed in a twisting new crime drama; Unforgotten pushes all the right buttons; and Grayson Perry returns
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    TV review
    Bloodlands review – James Nesbitt digs up the Troubles in tense thriller

    Produced by Line of Duty creator, Jed Mercurio, this four-parter is enjoyably dense with enough black humour to let it breathe
  • Actor Lisa Dwan at her home in Hampstead, London

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Lisa Dwan: 'Narratives of nasty women spread with few facts attached'

    The Irish actor on reimagining Antigone, what she learned from Billie Whitelaw, and starring in Jed Mercurio’s new crime drama

November 2020

  • Jed Mercurio.

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Jed Mercurio: 'Some of the colloquialisms in Line of Duty are inspired by my dad'

    The screenwriter on series six of the police procedural, laughing at Ted Hastings’s colloquialisms, and his forthcoming drama about Stephen Lawrence

October 2020

  • Terrorist mastermind ... Anjli Mohindra as Nadia in Bodyguard.

    From mute to menacing: why TV's portrayal of Muslims still falls short

    Though representation has increased, Islam on TV is still largely centred around terrorists and oppressed women. What we need is more complexity – and fewer dangerous cliches
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