Line of Duty’s Martin Compston send fans wild as he reunites with his co-stars

Line Of Duty fans have been left conviced a new series is secretly in the works after show stars Martin Compston, Vicky McClure and Adrian Dunbar reunited with creator Jed Mercurio for a pub outing on Tuesday evening.

Compston, 38, who plays AC-12 inspector Steve Arnott, delighted viewers of the BBC police drama as he posted a photo of the group on his Twitter page, with the gang enjoying beer and wine as they perused their menus. 

Joking that they were ‘talking tattoo designs’, social media erupted with fans convinced this was a sign that the much loved show would soon return for a seventh series. 

‘We’re talking tattoo designs’: Line of Duty’s Martin Compston reunited with his co-stars on Tuesday leaving fans convinced a seventh series will soon be announced (L-R) Adrian Dunbar, Vicky McClure, Martin Compston, Jed Mercurio 

Beaming for the camera, the Scottish actor was joined by McClure (Kate Fleming), Dunbar (Ted Hastings) as well as the show’s creator Mercurio.

Compston wore a dark sweater as he sat at the outside wooden table enjoying a glass of white wine. 

McClure, 39, cut a casual figure in an oversized cardigan as she wore her blonde hair away from her face. 

Fans went wild at the sight of the actors reuniting, with one writing: ‘New LOD [Line of Duty] script under the menus?’ 

AC-12 reunited: Social media erupted with fans convinced this was a sign that the much loved show would soon return for a seventh series (pictured in series five)

While a second added: ‘Does that mean series 7?’.

And third commented: ‘I hope ‘tattoo’ is code for LOD 7′.

And another agreed: ‘Mother of god, you’d better be talking new series plots /plot twists while you’re there’. 

This comes after Martin said recently there is ‘definitely scope’ for a seventh series but people will ‘have to wait and see’. 

Wild: Fans went wild at the sight of the stars reuniting, racing to Instagram hoping that a new series was on the horizon

The actor was asked on The Chris Moyles Show on Radio X if the programme was still being made and he told the host ‘we think so’.

Speaking about then future of the show, Martin said:  ‘I think there is definitely scope for it. 

‘I mean, look, I’m delighted with the response, in terms of people are now really intrigued to see if there is another one, but there’s nothing changed for us in terms of where we’re at after we finish a series.’

He went on to say there was usually a break of at least year between each series before ‘the dust settles and Jed figures out whether there’s a story to tell’. 

Series six of the show ended in the spring of 2021 with viewers finally discovering who the mysterious ‘H’ was. 

He said: ‘So I’m delighted that people are so excited and so desperate to find out but, as I say, this is what we’ve done after every series so we’ll just wait and see what he thinks.’

The actor added that filming the sixth series was a ‘tough shoot’ because of coronavirus rules, and said ‘it wouldn’t be nice to go out that way’ as it’s such a sociable show.

He said: ‘We filmed the last one during Covid and all that, and it was a tough shoot and kind of miserable, because we were one of the first jobs back and it was literally on set, nowhere near anybody, and then back to your flat.

‘We couldn’t even mix with each other. So I think for us, it wouldn’t be nice to go out that way, we’d like to do one more…’

Fingers crossed: This comes after Martin said recently there is ‘definitely scope’ for a seventh series but people will ‘have to wait and see’ (pictured in season six)