Second ‘Bodyguard’ series can’t come too soon

SIR – What a great series Bodyguard has been – a must-watch with an ending that was suspenseful right up to the credits.

I watched with bated breath as the Budd family’s car drove to the end of the road – with no explosion. Very Hitchcock. Can’t wait for the next series. Helen Boxall

Dursley, Gloucestershire

SIR – Jed Mercurio is supposed to be a stickler for procedure. In Line of Duty we were reliably informed that a police officer had the right to be interviewed by an officer at least one rank senior. Yet, in Bodyguard, the villainous Chief Superintendent Craddock was interviewed by Detective Chief Inspector Sharma. Paul Richmond

Godalming, Surrey

SIR – As a former current affairs producer for the BBC, I can’t help thinking that BBC News is poisoning its own well by permitting its staff to appear, quite unnecessarily, in television dramas like Bodyguard. It simply makes the drama seem less real: we know that what’s being shown never happened, so these “actual” news reports and reporters seem anything but actual. More importantly, such “fake news” erodes the standing of those taking part, tainting them with fiction – all the more so in tall tales like Mr Mercurio’s. Rob White

London N3

SIR – I had been increasingly fed up with Bodyguard’s over-explicit sexual scenes and was not planning to watch the final part.

However, I did watch it, and it was an excellent and exciting conclusion, brilliantly acted and mercifully free from the earlier excesses. Mary Fraser Burns

Buckley, Flintshire

SIR – Brilliant as Bodyguard was, that bomb disposal expert would have worn eye protection. Vivian Bush

Hessle, East Yorkshire