Rona
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Posted At: 30/06/2009 15:57:56
I loved the comedy "New Tricks". But it seems to have (apart from endless repeats) disappeared from our screens. I thought it had been quite popular, so am surprised that there has been no word of a new series. Does anyone know why it was taken off our screens?
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BessieG
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Posted At: 30/06/2009 16:04:04
I loved it too Rona but the last series was quite a dark one, if I remember correctly, where one of the characters (whose name I can't remember for the life of me  ) who was a recovering alcholic, started to drink again. At the time I wondered whether that was going to be the last series .... I haven't heard/read anything else about it though.
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Rona
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Posted At: 30/06/2009 16:17:15
I think Alun Armstrong played the alcoholic.
I " googled" new Tricks and in 2008 it was reported that a new series had been commissioned for showing in 2009. But there has been not a word.
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BessieG
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Posted At: 30/06/2009 16:40:45
Alun Armstrong - that's the one 
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Caedfael
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Posted At: 30/06/2009 17:48:48
According to next week's tv guide New Tricks is scheduled to return the following week, i.e. in two weeks time.
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Rona
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Posted At: 30/06/2009 22:08:37
Yipee. Why have there been no trailers on tv? There seem to be endless ones for all the programmes I don't want to watch.
Thanks for that. I couldn't find any reference on google that was up-to-date.
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PatriciaAnne
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Posted At: 04/07/2009 21:03:44
It said in the Daily Express a few weeks ago that a new series was actually being filmed, and there was a photo of the cast on location.
When it will be shown, it didn't say.
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Sweetsue
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Posted At: 05/07/2009 20:08:11
Oh good, this was one of my favourite series of all time.
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PatriciaAnne
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Posted At: 05/07/2009 21:53:28
I like it too. The relationships between the 4 of them are portrayed wonderfully. It's so lighthearted and funny, yet there's a story every episode.
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Caedfael
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Posted At: 07/07/2009 10:58:07
New Series starts on BBC 1 at 9pm on Thursday 16th July.
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Rona
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Posted At: 07/07/2009 11:07:33
Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou. At last something decent to watch. Now if they just bring back the No. 1 Ladies detective agency I will be in heaven
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Shann
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Posted At: 07/07/2009 11:26:53
That's great news. At last there will be something worth watching.
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Griffon
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Posted At: 24/07/2009 00:34:59
Yeah - just caught up with last week's in iplayer and tonight's on telly. Great!! I think this series so far has been better than the last. I enjoyed tonight's with its theme of conspiracy theories wrapped up in conspiracy theories. I'll say no more in case others have yet to watch it but I laughed out loud at several bits.
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deeply dippy
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Posted At: 24/07/2009 00:43:01
yes it is good i like the fun in it but it always makes a serious point as well as we all know they were flying out prisoners through british airports so it might have happened
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Cassiopea
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Posted At: 24/07/2009 14:01:20
Yes the conspiracy theory within the conspiracy theory was very tongue in cheek X files. This is a great series I am a fan of Brian!
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Valerie Jackson-Powell
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Posted At: 24/07/2009 19:28:21
I also love this series. Its James Bolam for me. Remember him from When the Boat Comes In and of course Susan Jamieson.
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Cassiopea
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Posted At: 25/07/2009 18:30:00
I think he is married to her in real life - James Bolam that is. I loved the Beiderbeck Affair which they showed quite recently. That was a very quirky series.
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Dee3
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Posted At: 26/07/2009 09:40:42
I love that series as well, Cassi.LIke you say, it was quirky.Barbara Flynn was in it wasn't she?I remember her in Family at War!
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Cassiopea
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Posted At: 26/07/2009 12:22:49
Yes it was Barbara Flynn but I don't think I watched Family at War. I think she was also in A Very Peculiar practice - that was also very quirky!
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Rossi
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Posted At: 27/07/2009 12:09:52
This is an excellent series.
Just watched last weeks ep, last night. Did you all spot Dempsey and Makepeace in it...  |
