New Tricks

Series 12 - Episode 6 The Fame Game

Review

by Jane Rackham

While Sasha is away on a course, Ted, Steve and Danny investigate an apparent suicide pact between a married couple who had been professional lookalikes. She was Cher while he impersonated “the poor man’s George Best” ex-footballer Mikey Briggs. As most of the people involved (Lucy Benjamin, Eva Pope and Michael Higgs) are used to living a lie, they constantly give the trio the run-around.

It’s the flimsiest of plots but New Tricks is now so soapy it seems to revolve around the detectives’ domestic problems rather than a crime. Danny’s discombobulated by living in two places, Steve has financial problems while Sasha is trying to get her son back on track.

Summary

While Sasha is occupied with a training course, the boys' investigations take them to a lookalike agency, where their top two acts were found dead in an apparent double suicide 13 years ago. In an industry reliant on the art of the illusion and their suspects intent on giving them the run around, Ted, Steve and Danny are convinced there's more to this case than first meets the eye. Steve is thrilled when their enquiries take them to the door of one of his football heroes, but his glee is short-lived. Detective drama, starring Denis Lawson.

Cast & Crew

Steve McAndrew Denis Lawson

Danny Griffin Nicholas Lyndhurst

Sasha Miller Tamzin Outhwaite

Ted Case Larry Lamb

Mikey Bishop Michael Higgs

Fiona Kennedy Tracy Ann Oberman

Clara Bishop Eva Pope

Alex Miller Harry Lister Smith

Bertie Richmond Michael Fenton Stevens

Lesley Carmichael Lucy Benjamin

Dylan Sykes Tim Chipping

Director Daikin Marsh

Executive Producer Myar Craig-Brown

Producer Huw Kennair-Jones

Writer Rachael New

Drama

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Series 12 - Episode 6 The Fame Game

Review

Summary

Cast & Crew

Tamzin Outhwaite on motherhood, fame and returning to EastEnders

Farewell to New Tricks: "Grumpy Old Men with dead bodies - and the BBC's secret weapon"

How Amanda Redman overcame grief and found solace on the set of The Good Karma Hospital

Farewell to New Tricks and the bunch of out-of-retirement coppers who became the BBC's secret weapon

Benedict Cumberbatch 'bumps into' Larry Lamb to talk about the tragedy of London's disappearing Soho

New Tricks has no business using a rape storyline - it's the last resort of a dying drama

Larry Lamb on the demise of New Tricks and whether Archie Mitchell could make a comeback

Gillian Taylforth, Tom Courtenay and Henry Winkler in this week’s Radio Times

New Tricks

Series 12 - Episode 6 The Fame Game

Review

Summary

Cast & Crew

Tamzin Outhwaite on motherhood, fame and returning to EastEnders

Farewell to New Tricks: "Grumpy Old Men with dead bodies - and the BBC's secret weapon"

How Amanda Redman overcame grief and found solace on the set of The Good Karma Hospital

Farewell to New Tricks and the bunch of out-of-retirement coppers who became the BBC's secret weapon

Benedict Cumberbatch 'bumps into' Larry Lamb to talk about the tragedy of London's disappearing Soho

New Tricks has no business using a rape storyline - it's the last resort of a dying drama

Larry Lamb on the demise of New Tricks and whether Archie Mitchell could make a comeback

Gillian Taylforth, Tom Courtenay and Henry Winkler in this week’s Radio Times

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