Line of Duty fans may be disappointed as Kelly Macdonald's newest TV show has received a disappointing update.

According to Deadline, the TV adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's dystopian novel Never Let Me Go starring Macdonald will no longer be going ahead at FX.

Production had not yet begun on the project that was ordered to series at FX to air on Hulu in the US and Disney+ internationally late last year.

The series was set to star Line of Duty's Macdonald alongside The Witcher star Viola Prettejohn and was based on the novel of the same name.

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Had the series gone ahead, Prettejohn was set to take on the lead role of Thora, a rebellious teenage clone who breaks free from a boarding school that seeks to hide clones from the world.

Attempting to live a life in the real world and living under the radar, an official description says that Thora "unwittingly sets in motion events that will spark a revolution and test the boundaries of what it means to be human".

Macdonald and Prettejohn were to be joined by Aiysha Hart, Spike Fearn, Kwami Odoom (Death in Paradise), Susan Brown (It's a Sin), Shaniqua Okwok, Gary Beadle (Wheel of Time), Keira Chanse and Edward Holcroft (Kingsman).

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The novel was previously adapted into a 2010 film of the same name starring Keira Knightley, alongside Andrew Garfield and Carey Mulligan.

The heartbreaking film followed the lives of Ruth, Kathy and Tommy as they spend their childhood in an idyllic British boarding school.

As the three become young adults and fall in love, they prepare for the haunting reality of their situation: they are clones whose vital organs will eventually be harvested.

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