New Tricks
Introduction
Alun
Armstrong, James Bolam, Amanda Redman and Dennis
Waterman return as an unlikely team of crack detectives in New
Tricks, a six-part drama for 大象传媒 ONE from Wall to Wall Television,
following the antics of three retired cops recruited by Superintendent
Sandra Pullman (Amanda Redman) to reinvestigate unsolved crimes from
the past.
Gerry Standing
(Dennis Waterman), Jack Halford (James Bolam) and Brian Lane (Alun Armstrong)
have long since handed over their badges and the world of 21st century
policing is alien to them.
But their
hunger to get a result - despite some unconventional means - is as strong
as ever.
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Crimes
tackled by the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad (UCOS) include the
fatal shooting of a young female police officer, art fraud in the Queen's
collection and the murder of a young peace protester.
Murder
and suicide at a country golf club, the 30-year-old case of a missing
mother and baby and the abduction of a teenager left to die in a transport
container also come under scrutiny, as Pullman and her team face a surprising
incidence of cover-up and conspiracy.
The UCOS
squad also have their own problems to deal with - Halford is haunted
by the loss of his wife after a hit-and-run accident, Lane is on medication
and obsessed with the death of a prisoner and Standing, a confirmed
womaniser, is bankrupt and about to become a granddad.
Pullman,
too, has to face up to a personal dilemma - is she married to the job?
Producer
Gina Cronk
says: "Our detectives have become a strong team but they are each
driven by internal conflicts. It's only a matter of time before these
dilemmas spill over into their work.
"But,
although the cases they investigate are shocking and traumatic, humour
is never far from the surface, thanks to their personalities and the
unorthodox methods they use to get a result."
Executive
Producer Mike Dormer says: "The unique line up of talent on New
Tricks has struck a chord with the audience who turn on as much for
the antics of the regular cast as for the crime stories.
"Watching
James Bolam, Alun Armstrong and Dennis Waterman trying to corrupt Amanda
Redman's Superintendent Pullman is a joy."
Filmed
in and around London, New Tricks also stars Cherie Lunghi, Anthony
Head, Robert Bathurst, Stephen Moore, Isla Blair,
Patrick Baladi, Jamie Glover, Robert Pugh, Christine
Kavanagh, Susan Jameson, Diana Kent and Adam Kotz,
with Chik茅 Okonkwo as PC Clark and Nicholas Day
as Pullman's boss Bevan.
Created
by Roy Mitchell and Nigel McCrery,
New Tricks is produced by Wall to Wall Television, the company
behind the award-winning A Rather English Marriage, Our Boy, Sex Chips
& Rock n Roll and Glasgow Kiss.
New Tricks
is written by Roy Mitchell, Simon Block, Nick Fisher
and Alison Hume and directed by Paul Seed, Jamie Payne
and Jon East.
The executive
producers are Mike Dormer and Alex Graham.
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New Tricks begins on 大象传媒 ONE at 9.00pm on Thursday
1 April 2004.
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