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Motherland viewers can’t help but love lead character Julia, as they laugh their way through her trials and tribulations every episode as she takes on the mum eat mum world of the school playground. Now actress Anna Maxwell Martin, who plays her, has joked that - much to her surprise - her children think she’s very similar to her frazzled alter-ego.

ABC is in negotiations with Ellie Kemper (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) to headline Motherland, a comedy pilot based on the British series. Karan Soni (Deadpool franchise) has been tapped for a lead in the project, from writer Julieanne Smolinski, Sharon Horgan and Clelia Mountford’s Merman Television, Paul Feig’s Feigco Entertainment, Lionsgate and ABC Signature. Michael Showalter (The Big Sick) has come on board to direct.

Line of Duty fans will spot a familiar face on their screens shortly as ITV’s new four-part thriller will drop later this year and it looks very interesting indeed.

It would be hard to find a Line of Duty character more universally loathed than DS Patricia Carmichael, played brilliantly by actress Anna Maxwell Martin.