One of the most endlessly asked television-related questions must be: Will there be another series of Line of Duty ? The answer would seem to be yes (2027, it’s rumoured), but frankly that doesn’t matter when we have the altogether more interesting and realistic Blue Lights . The Belfast-based police procedural returns with a deserved Bafta and to the tune of Ewan MacColl’s “Dirty Old Town” (written about 1940s Salford, but never mind; it works just as well for this version of Belfast).

Unlike Line of Duty , which is seemingly set in an indeterminate Midlands city, the specific location is central to Blue Lights . Where the first series revolved around a former IRA man now heading a crime family in Catholic, nationalist West Belfast, the focus of the second series was a loya

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