Bronagh Waugh

On Monday, Line Of Duty supporters were put on alert as Adrian Dunbar slipped into character - sadly for them, his latest venture has nothing to do with the beloved BBC drama. While filming scenes for a forthcoming episode of Ridley, an ITV police procedural co-starring former Hollyoaks actress Bronagh Waugh, Bronagh Waugh appeared on set. Dunbar, 65, mingled with members of the production team while waiting for cameras to roll, dressed in Ripley's brown leather jacket and corduroy trousers.

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: The first thing about Christmas television is that you get the leftovers first. We will really enjoy the good stuff only after the scrags and scrapes of shows are over. Food follows the opposite rule. By now, there may be enough turkeys for a round of sandwiches, but otherwise, it's cold pigs in stale blankets and some odd vino that no one wins in a raffle. Toffee pennies are the only thing in the Quality Street box, and they're the only real remnants. Nature is always reminding us that it's almost time to detox. However, television schedules are also in reverse. For weeks we've been offered the bits no one cares about. . . End-of-year quizzes in 2021, as well as a look inside the door of a Christmas stocking factory, is a rerun of sorts.

At the end of a hard day's graft busting at AC-12's headquarters, Kathryn Flett (pictured) says it's impossible to imagine Line Of Duty's Superintendent Ted Hastings popping into his local and easing the tension away. Richard Hawley, a classical (not necessarily primetime) singer-songwriter, is the product of his catalogue. Yet that's what Hastings' alter-ego (aka actor Adrian Dunbar) does in the first episode of ITV's new cop show Ridley, proving there's considerably more to his CV than an ability to catch bent coppers