![]() Next week, on May 19th, Simon Heath, World Production’s CEO and Creative Director will be joining the ITV Studios Drama Festival line up to showcase some of the company’s new, hotly-anticipated titles. It has been named as one of the 80 best BBC shows of all time.* ![]() Line of Duty is the winner of 12 prestigious awards including Best Drama Series from the Royal Television Society and Broadcasting Press Guild Award, and has been nominated for a further 32. Executive producers are Jed Mercurio, Simon Heath for World Productions, and Tommy Bulfin for BBC One. The new series was directed by Daniel Nettheim (Broadchurch, Doctor Who), Gareth Bryn (Hinterland, Last Tango In Halifax), and Jennie Darnell (Bodyguard, Hetty Feather), and the producer is Ken Horn (The Moorside, Line of Duty series five). Line Of Duty is written and created by Jed Mercurio, and made for BBC One by World Productions. Also joining for the first time this season were Shalom Brune-Franklin (Our Girl, Cursed), Perry Fitzpatrick (This Is England, I Am Nicola), Andi Osho (Kiri, Curfew) and Prasanna Puwanarajah (Doctor Foster, Patrick Melrose). It also features Kelly McDonald (Trainspotting, Boardwalk Empire, Giri/Haji) guest starring in a new leading role as Detective Chief Inspector Joanne Davidson - a senior investigating officer on an unsolved murder, whose unconventional conduct raises suspicions at AC-12. The award-winning crime drama follows a police anti-corruption unit and series leads Vicky McClure, Martin Compston and Adrian Dunbar all return to reprise their iconic roles. And last Sunday night’s finale saw a consolidated 16m after 12.8m viewers had tuned in live. The live audience figures surpassed the show's previous record of 9.1m for the finale of series five in 2019. The first episode of this series was watched by 9.6m overnight viewers on BBC One in the UK, with a consolidated audience of 13.8m. I’m sure there will be more countries on the horizon too, which can only be a good thing for audiences across the globe.” It’s great that fans everywhere from Finland to China will be able to watch this thrilling season of the show. Julie Meldal-Johnsen, EVP Global Content, ITV Studios said: “Line of Duty is a phenomenon and we’re delighted to be able to take the show to an even wider audience as a result of these sales. ![]() Britbox Australia also picked up the rights to the series, the show having launched there in April. ![]() home for Season Six, with the deal including premiere rights in Canada. It follows on from last month’s announcement that Britbox, the streaming service from BBC Studios and ITV, is the exclusive U.S. Buyers include TVNZ in New Zealand, KT Corp in South Korea, Movistar in Spain, Scandinavean pubcasters Denmark’s DR, NRK in Norway, SVT in Sweden and Finland’s YLE, as well as VRT in Belgium, NPO in the Netherlands and LTV in Latvia. In addition, the series written and created by Jed Mercurio and produced by the award-winning World Productions has also been picked up in a slew of deals worldwide with both linear and streaming platforms. – ITV Studios has struck a deal with video app Pumpkin Film in China for the record-breaking hit Series Six of Line of Duty, with the show - the finale of which on BBC One has consolidated at a massive 16 million after seven days in the UK - also set to launch on Britbox in North America next week. Pumpkin Film among raft of global deals secured for hit show ITV Studios announces deal for record-breaking series six of Line of Duty in China ![]()
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