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directed by Julian Simpson, Brian Grant, Daikin
Marsh, Sarah O'Gorman, David Innes Edwards
UK 2015
The crew of
NEW TRICKS unequivocally bids farewell in
the twelfth and final season of the
light-hearted crime series about the lives
and work of the Unsolved and Open Case (UCOS)
squad utilizing the expertise of a retired
police officers when new evidence turns up.
For the bulk of the series, the squad was
made up of recovering alcoholic Brian Lane (Alun
Armstrong,
GET CARTER), haunted Jack Halford
(James Bolam,
THE LONELINESS OF A LONG DISTANCE RUNNER),
and "last man standing" Gerry Standing
(Dennis Waterman,
SEXY BEAST) whose career
trajectory took a nosedive after she shot a
dog during a hostage rescue. Replacing
Halford after his death is cocky Steve
McAndrew (Denis Lawson,
DEAD HEAD) in season nine,
followed by intellectual Dan Griffin
(Nicholas Lyndhurst, ONLY FOOLS AND
HORSES…) replacing Lane in season ten,
and then DCI Sasha Miller (EASTENDERS'
Tamzin Outhwaite) taking charge in season
ten as her first command posting.
Politically-savvy Deputy Assistant
Commissioner Strickland (Anthony Calf,
THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE) allows the
team plenty of wiggle room even when
investigating sensitive cases, but will come
down on them when they blatantly break the
rules. The team's personal lives also
interfere with and inform their
investigations. Miller is constantly
cleaning up for her troubled teenage son
(Harry Lister Smith, PAN) while
trying to have a love life. Standing is
starting to realize just how much of his
family life he is missing out on with the
birth of his new grandson to his single
daughter (Amy Nuttall, DOWNTON ABBEY).
Cash poor McAndrew is finding that he can no
longer live paycheck to paycheck when the
bills pile up and he has promised estranged
eighteen year old son a new car. Griffin,
who mentally-ill wife is hospitalized in
long term care, is conflicted over moving
forward in his relationship with forensic
anthropologist Fiona (Tracy Ann Oberman,
FILTH) when she gets a prestigious job
offer in Scotland. The team's newest,
temporary member, Ted Case (Larry Lamb,
PLACE VENDŌME) would like to extend his
stay in lieu of a caravan trip across Europe
with partner Pat (Peter Vollebregt, THE
ROYALS). |
Theatrical Release: 4 August 2015 - 6 October 2015 (UK TV)
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DVD Review: Acorn Media/RLJ Entertainment - Region 2 - PAL
Big thanks to Eric Cotenas for the Review!
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Runtime | 9:49:24 (4% PAL speedup) | |
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1.78:1 Original Aspect Ratio
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Audio | English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo | |
Subtitles | English HoH, none | |
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Information: Studio: Acorn Media/RLJ Entertainment
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Details: Chapters 73 |
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Acorn splits the ten hour-long episodes onto three dual-layer discs with four on the first and three each on the other two. There are no glaring compression issues, just a slight overall softness and some downscaling edge enhancement. Most episodes are framed at 1.78:1 but episode seven is for some reason framed at 1.73:1 with side mattes. The Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo track suits the show's sound design which is heavier on dialogue than overall ambience (although the end credits music seems like it is mixed much louder than the rest of the programs). Optional English SDH subtitles are also included. There are few extras on the third disc, with the only substantive one being "NEW TRICKS: Top Ten Moments" which looks at the series as a whole, but viewers less familiar with the series may get little enjoyment out of it since the contributors have a habit of fully explaining what is going to happen before the clips rather than just offering brief context. |
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