New Tricks

So's mine - he's fed up with watching all the old repeats!

Mine's just said, 'Is this a new New Tricks or an old New Tricks?'
Funny how men like to watch it. Must be because they're all over the hill

Ooh, are we sitting comfortably?!

I love it! Got my knitting on the go, and I'm sitting most comfortably...wish someone would make me a nice cup of tea though......

It really is new!

DH is watching it and I'm playing 'puter... someone likes it..

I wonder who they'll bring in to replace Jack . Another actor of the same vintage?

Love it! Was that Darling from Blackadder?

James Bolan a brill actor...( especialy in "grampa in my pocket") oh and the likely lads

Yes Ella and very sinister he was too

It was 'Darling', Ella! Very good, wasn't it? What was it that Jack handed to the man in the pub, though?

What's happened to poor Mary. Is she still buried beneath the shrine in Jack's garden? Don't think I'd want to buy that house.

Why should anything have happened to her, merlot?

If he's spending his last days with Mary, does this mean he's digging her up?

Marelli I think it was a reporter, he was leaking the story about the pension fund.

Just asked OH - he reckons Mary's ashes, in an urn, were buried under the slabs in Jack's garden, so presumably he's dug that up and is taking it with him to the hospice.

He's going to the Ardeche where he and Mary were happy, so he's going to be with her ghost, as it were.

Ah....thanks, Ella! Other 'arf just cottoned on when I read your reply to him!

Can`t remember the name of the actor who`s replacing James Bolam, but he used to be in Holby City, he`s Scottish, not over tall, and Ewan McGregor is his nephew. Won`t be as good as lovely James Bolam though, I love New Tricks, hope the change doesn`t spoil it.

We are still getting old repeats here - presumably we'll get the new ones later. Dennis Lawson is the replacement.
www.digitalspy.com.au/british-tv/news/a359611/denis-lawson-replaces-james-bolam-on-new-tricks.html

Oh Him - he might do, possibly, maybe.

Denis Lawson is a very good actor. He was the Mr Fixit in Local Hero and, strangely, a starfighter pilot in the original Star Wars films! The latter didn't involve much acting really. If anyone has to replace James Bolam, it might as well be Denis Lawson.

I have watched New Tricks from the very beginning and obviously thoroughly enjoyed it. I loved watching how the characters have developed and their interaction with each other. I was with Brian during his dark days of alcholism and Jacks struggles with the gang who killed his wife in a hit run incident, Terry's involvement with his ex wives and Sandra's problems with her mother. They have all played great parts. I will miss Jack Halford and I thought that his leavings scenes with Brian were very moving and sensitively handled. Good luck James Bolam and enjoy your time in Southwold!!!

I missed the first ten minutes and found it hard to follow the plot. The affection between the whole team has been handled very well.
I still get a shock when I see how old James Bolam is - I still think of him in The Likely Lads. Then I look in the mirror.................