{"id":31241,"date":"2023-03-19T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1802868"},"modified":"2023-03-20T15:54:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T14:54:06","slug":"grace-author-says-line-of-duty-went-off-the-wall-after-season-2","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/grace-author-says-line-of-duty-went-off-the-wall-after-season-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace author says Line of Duty went \u201coff the wall\u201d after season 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> He spoke about TV dramas he admires. <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Louise Griffin\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Sunday, 19 March 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>ITV drama <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/grace-season-3-release-date\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Grace<\/a> has had viewers hooked, with author Peter James recently giving his honest opinion on the shows that came before.<\/p>\n<p>The series, <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/grace-cast-itv\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">starring John Simm<\/a> and Richie Campbell, is currently in its <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/grace-season-3-clip-exclusive-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">third season<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>James recently opened up on how other TV dramas compare, saying: \u201cObviously, I think Happy Valley did a good job. There was a lot of realism in that. I think the first couple of series of <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/line-of-duty-season-7-release-date\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Line of Duty<\/a> were good before it started going kind of off the wall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEndeavour is great. I really loved the American series Mare of Easttown with Kate Winslet. She\u2019s superb in that. Mare is like the American Sarah Lancashire. We were flying back from a holiday in the Maldives this time last year and my wife said, \u2018Watch this.\u2019 I sat and I watched five episodes in a row on the plane. It was so good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Line of Duty, starring Martin Compston, Vicky McClure and Adrian Dunbar, ran for six seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past two seasons of Grace, fans have been given hints as to what exactly happened to <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/grace-long-running-mystery-resolution-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Roy Grace\u2019s wife Sandy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/grace-itv-craig-parkinson-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Grace star John Simm explains change to Craig Parkinson\u2019s character<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/endeavour-abigail-thaw-dad-approved-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Endeavour\u2019s Abigail Thaw: \u2018My dad would have approved\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, it seems we might be about to find out, with James also recently teasing a resolution to that story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing that\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/grace-john-simm-show-future-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">John [Simm]<\/a> and I discuss a lot is Sandy and her disappearance. It will ultimately resolve, and I think the audience will love it,\u201d he said.<\/p> <p>Meanwhile, James also spoke about how the first episode in season 3, Dead Like You, contains flashbacks to Grace and Sandy\u2019s life together before her disappearance.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cGrace has always idolised Sandy but what I have gently shown through the books is that maybe she wasn\u2019t quite the perfect wife that he always thought. I\u2019m writing Sandy\u2019s story as a standalone novel at the moment, which is from her perspective from the day she leaves him and the real reason that she leaves him!\u201d<\/p> <div class=\"&quot;brightcove\" embed=\"\"> <div class=\"&quot;embed__intrinsic&quot;\"> <div class=\"&quot;brightcove__player\" vjs-playlist-player-container=\"\"> <video data-video-id=\"6322203611112\" data-account=\"69912529001\" data-player=\"ByeOf0VZEl\" data-embed=\"&quot;default&quot;\" data-application-id=\"\" controls=\"\" class=\"&quot;video-js&quot;\"> <\/video> <\/div> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<script src=\"&quot;\/\/players.brightcove.net\/69912529001\/ByeOf0VZEl_default\/index.min.js&quot;\"\/> <p><strong>Grace season 3 starts airing at 8pm on Sunday 19th March on ITV1 and\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/www.itv.com\/watch\/grace\/2a7610?gclid=Cj0KCQiAgaGgBhC8ARIsAAAyLfEWyNuZjb329bmwRTthCJ4BOcSz7cOXGPcrw-iRmadmGnarP9BMJ70aAhiJEALw_wcB&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">ITVX<\/a>. 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For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/audio\/podcasts\/&quot;\"><strong>The Radio Times Podcast<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> He spoke about TV dramas he admires. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":31242,"template":"","categories":[1,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/03\/grace-author-says-line-of-duty-went-off-the-wall-after-season-2.jpg",1080,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/03\/grace-author-says-line-of-duty-went-off-the-wall-after-season-2-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/03\/grace-author-says-line-of-duty-went-off-the-wall-after-season-2-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/03\/grace-author-says-line-of-duty-went-off-the-wall-after-season-2-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/03\/grace-author-says-line-of-duty-went-off-the-wall-after-season-2-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/03\/grace-author-says-line-of-duty-went-off-the-wall-after-season-2.jpg",1080,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/03\/grace-author-says-line-of-duty-went-off-the-wall-after-season-2.jpg",1080,720,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"He spoke about TV dramas he admires.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/31241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}