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Adrian Dunbar

Adrian Dunbar

  • Northern Irish
  • Actor and writer

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John Bishop joins next series of DNA Journeys

John Bishop is joining the cast of series four of DNA Journeys. Hugh Bonneville, Adrian Dunbar, Neil Morrisey, Alex Brooker, Johnny Vegas and Oti and Motsi Mabuse will also take part in the new series airing later this year.

Liverpool Echo, 3rd February 2023

What a laugh Adrian Dunbar has in Inside No 9. He plays himself, playing a cop. Not that cop - not Ted Hastings - but a detective in a true crime drama shooting in a dreary caravan park.

The crime in question is a baby-snatch from 20 years before, hardly ready-made gag material, but you know these No 9 boys - they love a macabre challenge. This week's episode, Hurry Up and Wait, is creepy enough to remind me of those old Alfred Hitchcock Presents until Dunbar bursts into the green room in a truly hideous jacket. The man has just been in Line of Duty, the biggest show around, and yet is as insecure as the next actor. Reece Shearsmith is a bit-parter playing alongside him. Dunbar nicks all of his dialogue, leaving him with just a head-nod, face unseen, and proceeds to ham it up something terrible: "I really think we've got the bastard!"

Aidan Smith, The Scotsman, 5th June 2021

Review: Inside No. 9 - Hurry Up And Wait

A claustrophobic and unsettling watch.

Luke, The Custard TV, 1st June 2021

TV: Inside No 9, Hurry Up And Wait, BBC Two

The world of TV criticism is in danger of running out of superlatives when it comes to Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's Inside No 9.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 31st May 2021

Inside No 9: Hurry Up And Wait review

This week's episode of Inside No 9 hit that sweet spot between spookiness and humour that Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton are so good at finding. And a large part of that is down to the very game guest stars, playing against type.

Steve Bennett, Chortle, 31st May 2021

Inside No. 9 review: Hurry Up And Wait

Line Of Duty's Adrian Dunbar plays himself in a deliberately uncomfortable blend of comedy and true crime drama that plays with Inside No. 9's twist tradition. Spoilers.

Louisa Mellor, Den Of Geek, 31st May 2021

Inside No. 9 review: Adrian Dunbar was an absolute hoot

The Line Of Duty star sent himself up marvellously in an episode that had strong echoes of The League Of Gentlemen.

Anita Singh, The Telegraph, 31st May 2021

Inside No. 9 Series 6 cast revealed

Filming has completed on Series 6 of Inside No. 9. The guest stars joining Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith will include Sian Clifford, Adrian Dunbar, Paterson Joseph and Sir Derek Jacobi.

British Comedy Guide, 27th January 2021

Radio Times review

A third outing for Charlie Brooker's Naked Gun-style cop spoof, although the comparison's becoming fainter and fainter. This is the strongest instalment yet, because the show's built up its own armoury of bad puns, ridiculous direction and smashed fourth walls. It no longer needs to bother about specifically spoofing individual crime dramas, either.

The story, as if that's important, concerns a serial killer who seems to be linked to a sinister therapy spa. Adrian Dunbar plays its powerful owner, doing a particularly good maniacal laugh that goes on for much too long. Karen Gillan is a bit underused as the squad's naive new flibbertigibbet, but that's fine because regular stars John Hannah and Suranne Jones are better than ever at straight-faced, dignity-shredding baloney. Keep looking out for the signs on the wall behind them.

Jack Seale, Radio Times, 9th August 2014

Walter: a wry new detective for BBC One?

Line of Duty's Adrian Dunbar is excellent in tonight's one-off detective drama Walter.

Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 8th August 2014

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