New Tricks
A series of cold cases are set to be heated up in New Tricks, as the veteran investigators are back for a new season. First up is a puzzling case involving a psychic and a dead financier.
‘Our first episode deals with the death of a man, who had a heart attack after a struggle with an intruder at his home,’ explains Amanda Redman, who plays Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, head of the Unsolved Crime And Open Case Squad.
Coronation Street
Fans of US series Law & Order will know British actor Linus Roache as driven attorney Michael Cutter. But Linus, son of Corrie stalwart William Roache (Ken Barlow), got his first acting break on the cobbles of Coronation Street in the Seventies, playing his dad’s screen son Peter Barlow.
‘Returning to Coronation Street has been amazing. It’s brought back so many fond memories,’ says Linus.
Daybreak
GMTV has gone, making way for ITV1’s new breakfast show Daybreak. But while the name and the look may be new, there are some familiar faces in front of the camera, in the shape of former The One Show hosts Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley.
Law & Order: UK
The drama following police and prosecutors is back — and the cases they deal with are as gritty as ever. They start with a toddler who’s been led to his death, a teen found dead in her home, and a prison officer who was murdered on a council estate.
Paul O'Grady Live
Brace yourselves — Paul O’Grady is back. And with a new live primetime chat show, anything could happen!
Fans were gutted when the star quit The Paul O’Grady Show on Channel 4 in 2009 after eleven series. And eyebrows were raised when he revealed he was heading back to ITV, having vowed never to work for the broadcaster again. But the Birkenhead-born star can’t wait to sit down for a good old chinwag.
Bouquet Of Barbed Wire
When it was screened in 1976, the original TV adaptation of Bouquet Of Barbed Wire shocked viewers. And the story of a father’s all-consuming love for his daughter is just as disturbing in this modern reworking.
Architect Peter Manson (Waking The Dead star Trevor Eve) is devastated to learn that his daughter Prue is pregnant by her teacher and threatening to quit school. But it’s more than just fatherly concern, and his feelings towards his little girl soon threaten to shatter Peter’s whole world.
Casualty
As Casualty returns for its 25th series with a 90-minute special, it’s all hands to the pumps as the A&E staff deal with a shooting spree at a college.
As the injured students begin to arrive, so do their anxious and shocked parents. Unsure if their children are dead or alive, they’re forced to wait for news. One of the worried mums is Camille, played by former EastEnders star Michelle Collins.
This Is England '86
Shane Meadows’ BAFTA-winning film This Is England told the story of young outsider Shaun, played by newcomer Thomas Turgoose, and his acceptance into a gang of skinheads in a Midlands town during the early Eighties. The movie’s characters now transfer to the small screen for This Is England ’86, a four-part series set three years on from the original.
U Be Dead
Deranged stalker Maria Marchese was jailed for nine years in 2007 for plaguing London psychiatrist Dr Jan Falkowski and his fiancée Debbie with a deluge of chilling text messages and phone calls. This drama’s title comes from Marchese’s final chilling text sent as the police closed in…