New Tricks Series 12
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Returns week after next. Presumably Monday August 3.
Very sad it'll be the last one.
Very sad it'll be the last one.
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Last Man Standing Part 1
Gerry is spooked by the discovery of UCOS's latest victim - a cop, whose body has lain untouched under a basement for 30 years. As accusations of police corruption and underhand dealings begin to surface, Gerry has to face up to some skeletons in his own closet and it's a race against time for the team to help before his murky past catches up with him. While babysitting his grandson, Gerry becomes convinced that only he holds the key to the investigation and goes Awol to uncover the truth.
First pics
No Dennis Waterman - I thought he was in the first two episodes ?
He's not going to replace Dennis Waterman, is he?
He is. Presumably they just preferred to show a pic taken of the new team after he'd gone, seeing as they're doing 8 episodes and Dennis only did 2.
That to me is the saddest thing about this! With Dennis gone and a whole new team it would have been like a new programme. They should have been given a chance. In the end, it's like they just used Dennis leaving as an excuse to swing the axe.
The Drama channel on Saturday is showing back to back episodes. It's their pick of the day and they do say "Ironically, in the week when the show returns on BBC1 with a two-parter marking Dennis Waterman's departure, you can wind back the clock 12 years to see how it all started.
A much younger Dennis is joined by Amanda Redman, James Bolam and Alun Armstrong in the pilot. Supt Sandra Pullman is reassigned and put in charge of the UCOS Cold case squad, following a botched kidnap rescue. And first up is an unsafe conviction'
Ahh, the memories.
A botched kidnap rescue ...
"It's 'er, innit? Woof!Woof! Bang! Bang!"
LOL It's apt they mention Dennis cos of course, he delivered that line to Jack. One of the best lines in the pilot I always thought! lol
http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/tv-radio/594241/New-Tricks-Dennis-Waterman-Alun-Armstrong-Amanda-Redman
This is more interesting, Waterman did not believe fully in Nicks character,
He's right about 'you can't cast chemistry' They got lucky with the 4 original actors, cos they all had it.
However the success of New Tricks could only last so long, after series 10 Amanda and Alun made their departure from the series with James following suit not longer after.
I do wish these people woul get their facts right! James left first, of course, after series 8.
Love the way it said the success 'could only last so long' You'd say that after about 2 or 3 series, surely (specially these days). James left after 8 years and it was still a big hit then!
Idiot.
These interviews do at least explain why Dennis stayed longer than Amanda and Alun. Presumably if he'd known they were leaving when they did, he wouldn't have signed up for more when he did.
He's not the only one! I thought the show took a nose-dive when Nicholas Lyndhurst joined the line up.
Nick Lyndhurst I again like a lot infact love but I think his strength is in comedy not drama.
Couldn't agree more with that. I hardly watch anything 'new' these days as it is. I don't watch reality/talent shows or soaps so there's not a lot left after that!
I watch a lot of DVD's these days.
Not necessarily : I liked Amanda Redman, but think Tamzin Outhwaite an ideal replacement, and the show didn't lose anything when she (Tamzin) joined it.
Denis Lawson is great; "Brian" was getting more and more silly, and it was time for him to go. Denis's character is lively and bright, and adds a lot to the show.
It's just Nicholas Lyndhurst I think is wrong.
Isn't there a film called Last Man Standing?
In a series 4 episode, Buried Treasure,(one of my favourites) the wife of an old villain referred to Gerry as 'Last man standing' (I actually thought of that when I saw the title) referring to the fact he was the only copper her husband couldn't buy when he was younger. Everyone else was bent, Gerry was the last man standing.
Yes, I remember that, thank you.
I can see no chemistry between Tracy-Ann Oberman and Nicholas Lyndhurst.
I think the programme could have been okay continuing with Denis Lawson and Dennis Waterman but without Nicholas Lyndhurst.