"This engaging drama, featuring a bunch of coppers well past their sell by date, makes a welcome return." Daily Mail "BBC1's highest rating new drama of last year is back for an 8 week run, with the same quirky mix of comedy and criminality. It's the crack cast though- James Bolam, Dennis Waterman, Alun Armstrong and Amanda Redman- that really makes these tales of retired coppers back on the job so watchable" Telegraph "The elements that made it a hit are still there: unhurried pace, quirky dialogue and gentle comedy" Radio Times

"One of the most enjoyable things currently on TV". Daily Mail.

"New Tricks is that rarity, a genuinely funny crime series, generously stuffed with throwaway jokes, pauses so perfectly timed they make your toes plait and sudden seriousness". The Guardian.

What’s wrong with detective work, the old-fashioned way? Three ex-coppers with over 80 years distinguished service between them. Ageing, creaking, missing teeth, losing hair. In a word 'retired'. Not any more…They're back…and there’s a woman in charge.

Following 2003's pilot show, cop drama New Tricks returned to BBC1 for a six-part series in 2004 to hit ratings and rave reviews.

The second, eight-part series aired in 2005 to even greater acclaim and figures, two further series have been commissioned for transmission in 06 and 07.

Starring: Alun Armstrong, James Bolam, Amanda Redman and Dennis Waterman.

Jack Halford is haunted by the loss of his wife in a hit-and-run car accident: it’s only a matter of time before he’ll want to re-investigate her death.

Brian Lane, on medication and obsessed with detail, is trying to get his behaviour back on track before his wife leaves him for good.

Gerry Standing, a confirmed womaniser with the ex-wives to prove it, is now facing the real prospect of bankruptcy and grandfatherhood.

And Sandra Pullman, in charge of the team, has questions to answer in her own private life: is she married to the job?

The Unsolved Crime and Open Case squad is keeping busy, with its remit to re-investigate crimes that were never conclusively closed - and put them to rest. Shootings, murders, art fraud, apparent suicides, missing persons - all cases from the past that ended with as many questions as answers. Pullman’s officers have a real hunger for the job and are finding a surprising incidence of cover-up and conspiracy. But these old dogs won’t roll over easily.