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Mar
Who watches the watchers? AC-12, that’s who. Jed Mercurio’s fictional anti-corruption police unit has thrilled BBC audiences for five series by bringing bent coppers to justice. Since 2012, they’ve gone up against top brass, organised crime, cunning colleagues and even one of their own (four or five of their own, if anyone’s counting. Only Vicky McClure’s blue-eyed hard nut Kate Fleming has yet to fall under suspicion). All the way back in February 2020 BBC One posted this image of the main series six cast at the official script readthrough. And then in early 2021, it was confirmed that series six…