Email Address. This website is owned and published by Inside Media Track. All rights reserved. All logos and trademarks in this site are property of their respective owner. Search Search. Menu Sections. Tamzin Outhwaite is joining the cast of long-running detective drama New Tricks to replace Amanda Redman.
T he former EastEnder will play the latest new recruit to the show - DCI Sacha Millard - who is in charge of the team of retired police officers looking into unsolved crimes.
Tamzin, who made a guest appearance on the show in another role in the last series, will appear in the final two episodes of the new series.
Redman is among former cast members who have criticised the direction the series has taken. The actress, who left in , said it has become "bland", the Daily Mail reports. James Bolam, another member of the original line-up, said it had "gone stale".
Headstrong Pictures — producers of the final series - said: "We are obviously sad to see it come to an end, but with the twelfth series currently in production for TX [transmission] later this year we are pulling out all the stops to make it a rewarding finale for viewers.
The crime drama enjoyed ratings highs of 9. New Tricks has been such a success for BBC 1 that nine series have been shot. The drama about the Met Police unsolved crime squad relies on a heavyweight cast, in British TV terms.
Armstrong's departure, reported by The Sun , is a third blow to the show after Likely Lads veteran James Bolam quit last year and Amanda Redman announced she will leave in That will leave only Dennis Waterman from the original line-up.
The last series to be broadcast, series eight, was one of the most successful ever in terms of ratings. It remains to be seen how the programme will fare without Bolam onboard — series nine goes out from Monday night.
Interviewed for the Radio Times , though, the stars of the show bizarrely seemed to talk it down ahead of the screening, complaining the writing isn't as good as it used to be. The characters are not being as anarchic as they used to be, which I think is a shame. Waterman weighed in, saying "People aren't as stupid as writers think" and adding: "We all want to move to Copenhagen to get to do some really extraordinary television.
Simpson, who is a more youthful figure than his cast, tweeted yesterday: "A New Tricks I wrote and directed airs on Monday. He concluded that he got on "phenomenally well" but didn't "appreciate actors speaking out of turn". Support came for Simpson in the august form of the veteran TV comedy writer Maurice Gran who wrote in The Daily Telegraph that the cast had "succumbed to a common mental ailment — the delusion that they actually write the scripts".
The good actors know they are nothing — nothing, do you hear me?! Remembering one of his more recent hits, The New Statesman , Gran said star Rick Mayall "never once told us what to write, even though he had a parallel career as a successful writer-performer".
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