Adrian Dunbar is ready to movie a brand new tv present tracing his roots.
The Line of Obligation star will likely be linking up with actor pal Neil Morrissey for the mission.
ITV’s DNA Journey turned a success after Ant and Dec traced their heritage and located household in Co Leitrim two years in the past.
Observe-up reveals included pairings reminiscent of Jamie Redknapp and Freddie Flintoff, Alan Carr and Amanda Holden and skaters Torville and Dean exploring their backgrounds.
Enniskillen-born Adrian let slip he could be showing within the fourth instalment of the Who Do You Suppose You Are?-style programme.
He mentioned: “I could be doing one thing with Neil Morrissey, who’s an outdated buddy of mine. It’s a kind of DNA journey reveals. It will likely be a little bit of amusing.”
Adrian is best-known for taking part in Ted Hastings in Line of Obligation, however the 64-year-old can also be the principle star within the Lancashire-set crime drama Ridley.
He performs a troubled ex-cop referred to as Alex Ridley who runs and sometimes performs at a jazz membership and is drawn again into police work by a former colleague.
Adrian mentioned: “There was an enormous sense of duty. Whenever you come off the again of making a very fascinating character like Ted Hastings, you don’t assume you'll attain these heights once more.
“You desire a character that the viewers can interact with and really feel for as a result of programmes like this depend on the guts on the center of all of it.”
Adrian admitted he laughed at recommendations that he had grow to be one thing of a intercourse image after hitting new heights of fame late in his profession.
He mentioned: “Very late, some folks would possibly say. However this stuff are all of the extra great after they occur later as a result of I feel you’re in a greater place to take care of it and likewise extra more likely to have learnt find out how to make the half work. What I’d like is luggage of empathy from our feminine viewers. Ted was fairly hapless. For all his strengths, ethical core, bluster and honesty, the place girls had been involved, his private life was in bits.
“I feel folks responded to that side of his character, and definitely, Ridley is in a fairly unhappy place.”
Adrian mentioned that a instructor at drama college as soon as warned that he and his fellow college students would possibly wait a very long time for his or her greatest job, citing Arthur Lowe starring as Captain Mainwaring in Dad’s Military on the time.
He added: “The tutor identified that Lowe was 53 when it occurred to him, so I at all times remembered that.
“Ted is my Captain Mainwaring in that sense: the position I’d been ready for or had been ready for me.
“On the level I went in to audition, he was simply referred to as ‘the Superintendent’ and was fairly far down the pecking order, however I instantly had a way of who he was.”
Adrian, who's in talks with the producer husband of his Line of Obligation co-star Vicky McClure about making a drama based mostly on the Irish republican chief James Connolly, is joined on Ridley by fellow Northern Irish actor Bronagh Waugh, who hailed him as an on-set mentor.
Bronagh, who performs Detective Inspector Carol Farman, mentioned: “Most individuals in Northern Eire know one another, are associated or have labored collectively, however we hadn’t.
“He’s such an incredible actor, however he’s additionally so form and humorous, and he actually sorted me. We’ve mimicked the connection between Carol and Ridley”