{"id":4940,"date":"2021-09-27T12:06:55","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T10:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1370253"},"modified":"2021-09-27T12:25:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T10:25:10","slug":"line-of-duty-team-announce-new-crime-thriller-starring-parminder-nagra","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/line-of-duty-team-announce-new-crime-thriller-starring-parminder-nagra\/","title":{"rendered":"Line of Duty team announce new crime thriller starring Parminder Nagra"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are ready to be addicted by the end of episode one… <\/p>

By Joe Julians\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 27 September 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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We may not know if or when we will get to return to the tension-filled world of Line of Duty<\/a> but we do now know that the next best thing is on the way: a new crime thriller that is being developed by the same team, this time for ITV.<\/p>\n

Line Of Duty\u2019s Maya Sondhi and Jed Mercurio are getting ready to introduce us to DI Ray and, while we do not have much information on the show just yet, we do have a fairly detailed synopsis that gives us some idea as to what we should expect when it arrives on ITV, presumably next year.<\/p>\n

Set in Birmingham, DI Ray introduces us to Leicester-born Rachita Ray (Parminder Nagra), a police officer who takes on a case that forces her to confront a lifelong personal conflict between her British identity and her South Asian heritage.<\/em><\/p>\n

Rachita achieves the promotion she\u2019s been waiting for when she\u2019s asked to join a homicide investigation. However, on her first day, she\u2019s told the murder to which she\u2019s been assigned is a \u2018Culturally Specific Homicide.\u2019 Rachita\u2019s heart sinks \u2013 she suspects she\u2019s a \u2018token appointment\u2019, chosen for her ethnicity rather than her ability.<\/em><\/p>\n

Never one to shy away from a challenge, Rachita sticks to the case, determined to both find the killer and call out the obvious biases her colleagues are bringing to the investigation. And it\u2019s far from easy. The case isn\u2019t a run-of-the-mill murder; it involves delving deep into the dangerous world of organised crime.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The team that brought us Line of Duty will helm DI Ray<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

Rachita is more than up for the task, but what she didn\u2019t count on is what this case stirs up inside her; the realisation that she\u2019s been burying a personal identity crisis her whole life. Truth is, she\u2019s had to work twice as hard as everyone else. It\u2019s not that she doesn\u2019t want to be Indian, it\u2019s just that it would have been easier if she were white.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI am so looking forward to getting back to the UK after such a challenging time globally to be part of this exciting new project,\u201d said the star of the new show, Nagra. \u201cWritten by Maya Sondhi and exec produced by the force that is Jed Mercurio, we are being helmed by an amazing team to bring something special to our storytelling landscape.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cThis is a project which is deeply personal for me as a British Asian Brummie woman,\u201d screenwriter Sondhi, who played Maneet Bindra in Line of Duty, added. \u201cIt\u2019s only in the past 10 years or so I\u2019ve really been able to truly embrace my heritage. So much of this show is my story and in telling it honestly, I hope others from all different backgrounds will relate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also talking about the new thriller was Mercurio who said: \u201cEveryone at HTM Television is thrilled to be collaborating with writer Maya Sondhi, director Alex Pillai and star Parminder Nagra on such a thought-provoking series. DI Ray is first and foremost a thriller, while Maya\u2019s writing poses complex and timely questions about the nature of personal ethnic identity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Filming for the series will start imminently in the Midlands and we expect it to land on our screens towards the end of next year. We\u2019ll keep you posted with all the latest news about DI Ray as and when we get it.<\/p>\n

Line of Duty is available to watch in full on BBC iPlayer. For more to watch, check out more of our Drama<\/a>\u00a0coverage or visit our\u00a0TV Guide<\/span><\/a> to see what\u2019s on tonight.\u00a0<\/strong><\/section>\n
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