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This Belfast-based police procedural is back for its third season with a well “deserved” Bafta under its belt, said Gerard Gilbert in The i Paper . There’s always a buzz around whether “Line of Duty” will return for another season “but frankly that doesn’t matter” when we have this “altogether more interesting and realistic” show. The third instalment “shifts to affluent South Belfast, where a Dublin-based crime gang is attempting to dominate the city’s drugs trade”. Co-creators and writers Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson grew up in

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