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Wild at Heart Series 5 follows Danny Trevanion’s move to South Africa where he has become the local vet at Leopards Den, he had no idea what an extraordinary life-changing event it would be. As seasons change and time passes, his world continues to evolve with old faces and new challenges greeting him at every dawn.

Dannys step-daughter Olivia has returned to the family home, throwing his relationship with Alice into turmoil. When he turns to drink for comfort, the unexpected death of an animal in his care leads to a temporary suspension that is at risk of becoming permanent.

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John Nettles final episode sees DCI Tom Barnaby, with his birthday approaching, reluctantly accompanying Joyce on a spa weekend to Swavely Manor. But as Barnaby attempts to relax a woman is found dead in the floatation chamber. Abandoning the treatment to investigate, Barnaby uncovers a feud between neighbours, money wrangles and the mystery of a half-written novel. After another gruesome discovery, the truth gradually emerges. With the net closing in on the killer, all Barnaby has to worry about is his birthday party, retirement and welcoming his cousin DCI John Barnaby to Causton Police Station.

The end for John Nettles is however not the end for Midsomer Murders as experienced TV actor Neil Dungeon replaces john Nettles as his cousin DCI John Barnaby. Neil Dungeon was introduced as DCI John Barnaby in an earlier episode “The Sword of Guillaume” however for those with a longer memory may remember Neil from an episode from 2000 “The Garden of Death” where he played Daniel Bolt.

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None more so when Waterloo Road beat fellow BBC Dramas Sherlock and Doctor Who to the most popular drama award. Sherlock was the favourite of many of the television critics however the National Television Awards are voted for by the viewers and Waterloo Road came out on top even beating Doctor Who which had won the award 6 years in a row.

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PIONEERING 18TH century barrister William Garrow returns to the Old Bailey to champion the rights of prisoners against the State.  But in the process he is making powerful enemies who are determined to destroy him by any means.

Garrow challenges a brutal trade that regards slaves as cargo not human beings; and defends a man accused of sodomy: a capital offence in Georgian England.  But his work becomes entwined with his personal life when he takes on the case of a British sailor out to expose the abuse of sailors in Greenwich Hospital. Garrow is thought to have mixed motives when he attacks the Admiralty establishment – and in particular Sir Arthur Hill.

Garrow has been accused of adultery with Hill’s wife, and will find himself on trial for ‘Criminal Conversation’.  Now the fight for justice has brought Garrow’s life to centre stage.  He must give the performance of a lifetime if he is to survive.

Garrow’s Law stars Andrew Buchan (Cranford, The Fixer) in the title role, alongside Alun Armstrong (Little Dorrit, New Tricks) as Garrow’s sidekick Southouse, Rupert Graves (Single Father) and Lyndsey Marshal (Rome).  The series was created by Tony Marchant (Holding On) based on real-life documents and cases from the Old Bailey in 18th century London.

Special Features include William Garrow: Fact and Fiction – an exclusive behind the scenes feature on the story of the man who inspired Garrow’s Law.

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Reviews

“The court scenes are fabulous…..William Garrow is my new hero. If the law was an ass (and it certainly was), then he whupped it, big time.”

The Guardian

“excellent ensemble cast and some exemplary dramatic writing by Tony Marchan”

The Arts Desk

For those of you who want a taste of New Tricks Series 7 prior to its release we have the plot synopsis for each of the ten episodes.

DEAD MAN TALKING By Julian Simpson

The team are asked to reopen a case when the victim’s daughter comes to them with new evidence – from a psychic. Clearly sceptical they start digging and discover that the victim, Douglas Anderson wasn’t as squeaky clean as he might have appeared. Although he took over the care of his best friend and business partner’s daughter, it would appear that he also duped his friend John Plummer out of money owed from a fraudulent scheme and allowed his friend to take the rap for the scam (Plummer subsequently died in prison). However when the team meet Plummer’s former cellmate, they realise something is wrong and work out that not only did he kill Anderson but he is in fact Plummer himself who had used the psychic’s relationship with his estranged daughter to try and uncover the whereabouts of the money.

IT SMELLS OF BOOKS by J.C.Wilsher

There’s a bunch of cases that never seem to come to the top of the pile, and Strickland has told Pullman he’d like to see them progressed.  Pullman looks through the list – they’re all cases which UCOS has given the once over, and put back on the shelf because other inquiries seemed more promising.  They still do.

LEFT FIELD By Lisa Holdsworth

When the team are approached by a known paedophile who confesses to the abduction and murder of a 5 year old boy 26 years ago, they find themselves in the unusual position of having to prove he didn’t do it. The boy’s parents have since split up and have followed very different paths, while she is a human rights advocate he has become a staunch advocate of men’s rights. The team wonder whether they have been covering for one another. However there is another suspect – a former friend of the couple’s whose story of her son’s adoption doesn’t quite ring true . When the team discover that Fred was not Yassar’s biological father this puts two other people in the frame, Fred himself and Yassar’s real dad. With some digging they discover that Yassar is still alive. He was taken out of the country with Fred’s help and brought up in the Middle East.

DARK CHOCOLATE by Roy Mitchell

Strickland presents Pullman with a delicate new case. In a present-day rape in North London, the attacker’s DNA has been linked to 2 rapes from the late 1990’s – both in the Pyramid Chocolate Factory in West London. Pullman & her team are to re-examine the old unsolved case. The present day victim, Helen Vestry was working in a bakery when she was attacked.

GOOD MORNING LEMMINGS by Matthew Thomas

When graffiti starts appearing at numerous high profile locations across the capital declaring ‘I Killed Flak’ the UCOS team is told to reopen the investigation into the unsolved murder of twenty-five year old Danny Tyler aka Flak, a prolific graffiti artist. His corpse was found four years ago dumped beside some rail tracks. Flak’s ‘street art’ is now sold for big bucks through uber-trendy galleries. His most famous piece of graffiti was on the pillars of a west London underpass, the words Good on the first pillar, then Morning on the second pillar then Lemmings on the last pillar greeted thousands of commuters daily.

FASHION VICTIM By Nick Hopkins

80’s fashion designer Richard Levene’s retrospective of his work reignites the mystery of his stabbing during a party 8 years ago. The suspects are his geeky intern, his ex-wife, his new model wife, his business-partner brother and his best mate. There’s also the wife’s ex-boyfriend Tyler who has disappeared without a trace. All signs point to Ritchie’s brother as the culprit. Meanwhile, having found Tyler, it would appear that he too had plenty of reason for wanting to get rid of Ritchie as he was still in love with his former girlfriend, Ritchie’s wife. However thanks to Ritchie’s obsessive PA the team are directed towards an illegal investment scheme cooked up by Ritchie’s best friend Colin Beck. Ritchie’s brother Adrian tells them that Ritchie was about to blow the whole thing which is clearly why Colin took decisive action and killed him.

WHERE THERE’S SMOKE By Ollie Brown

When a woman on remand, Dawn Abbott, brings information to UCOS about an apparently accidental fire 14 years ago, her motivation doesn’t appear to be entirely honourable. Her tip off sends the team into the world of drug dealers as well as the fascinating world of fire investigation. It would appear that Danny Johnson may have had something to gain by killing his brother and king pin, Mark in the fire, but then again so did a victim of Mark’s ire, former gang-member Stuart Russell and his partner in crime David Swallow. Their reopening of the case lands the team in a couple of incendiary situations in which Gerry finds himself the unlikely hero as well as opening their eyes to the mercurial world of fire investigation through retired investigator George Mackie himself. Ultimately they uncover Dawn’s true motivation for pointing the finger at the Johnson’s and begin to suspect that the fire was the work of a serial arsonist. None other than George Mackie.

COMING OUT BALL By Lisa Holdsworth

Pullman and Strickland are called to an Irish pub for a meeting with Fintan Macentee, a former Irish dissident who has now sworn off violence in favour of the democratic process. However, in the bad old days of the troubles, Fintan was the leader of the Republican Front group who were involved in a couple of low-level terrorist acts during the Eighties. Post the Good Friday Treaty, Fintan has been working for one of the ‘truth and reconciliation’ campaigns that are trying to heal the wounds of sectarian violence in an attempt to reinvent himself as a politician.

GLOVES OFF By Roy Mitchell

The deceased is boxer, Eddie Mayfair who was killed a week after a key fight in which his opponent was seriously injured. All fingers pointed to the loser of the fight, Milton Joseph and his gang as the murderer but as the team delve deeper into Billy’s life, they discover the talented boxer was being manipulated and used by those closest to him, namely his manager Harry Gallo and best friend Danny Branston who were both involved in his demise.

THE FOURTH MAN By Julian Simpson

An old adversary of the team brings them fresh information on a 30 year old bank job that threatens to bring about the end of UCOS altogether. Former DCS Frank Patterson says a car coming up for auction was used in an unsolved bank robbery that ended in the violent deaths of three of the suspected robbers. The fourth man, Michael Denby hasn’t been seen since so what looks like a wild goose chase soon reveals itself to be something much more delicate. The object of Patterson’s obsession is not just Denby but also a copper who may have colluded with Denby but is now an extremely high ranking officer, DAC John Felsham. By finding Denby they hope to nail Felsham but their investigation leads them to dead ends and less than truthful witnesses. Felsham himself further derails the investigation when he calls for UCOS to be disbanded and the lads are sent home. However the investigation continues and Denby is traced to an old people’s home where he is found to be suffereing from advanced Alzheimers but all is not lost when Denby’s alias leads the team right back to Felsham.

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John Nettles started his career as another TV detective Jim Bergerac in 1981 in the eponymously titled BBC series Bergerac. It was an immediate hit and ran for nine series until 1991 establishing John Nettles as one of the UK’s most popular television actors and also as a reluctant TV heartthrob.

However it was John Nettles next major role on television that would firmly cement his place in TV history as in 1995 he was offered the role of DCI Tom Barnaby in Midsomer Murders. The first episode aired in 1997 and proved to be a remarkable success, even surpassing his acclaim for his role in Bergerac. The mysterious macabre deaths and tongue in cheek performances from John Nettles and the rest of the cast endearing themselves to millions with the show becoming a huge worldwide hit.

February 2^nd will see the airing of DCI Tom Barnaby’s final case ‘Fit for Murder’ in which, as ever, nothing is as it seems behind the well trimmed hedges of the picturesque cottages in the idyllic English county of Midsomer.

This time a rejuvenating Spa break turns out to be anything but for Barnaby and his wife, as the country hotel soon becomes a murder scene. As DCI Barnaby investigates, he also has personal matters on his mind and his upcoming birthday leads him to question where his future lies.

There have been 2 endings filmed for this final episode however suitably it seems all is going to end well for Tom Barnaby and his wife Joyce as John Nettles joked “I wanted to die in noble fashion in the service of my country and be buried in Westminster Abbey. But Tom and his long-suffering wife Joyce will simply retire”

John Nettles will hand over the responsibility for solving the continuing murders in Midsomer to Neil Dudgeon who plays DCI John Barnaby, Tom’s cousin, who has already been introduced in a previous episode helping DCI John Barnaby on a previous case.

John Barnaby moves up to Midsomer to partner DI Ben Jones, played by established Midsomer Murders star Jason Hughes and although many viewers will be sad to see John Nettles leave his role John himself thinks Midsomer will be in good hands.

John Nettles commented “It has been a joy to be involved in such a long running series, with so many good actors and great storylines. If Neil has half the good times that I have had on Midsomer then he will be in seventh heaven.  I am only worried that he is much younger than I am and a much better actor!”

The DVD of the final episode “Fit for Murder” will be available to fans exclusively early from the Acorn Media UK website immediately after the show airs on the 2^nd February. The final episode will also will available on the Midsomer Murders Volume 8 boxset which again will be available exclusively early.

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