Law + Order: UK Series 8 press release
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Law & Order: UK
Homer_Simpson_is_a_Smart-Guy — 12 years ago(February 22, 2014 01:04 PM)
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Law & Order: UK will be back with a bang on ITV literally.
Dependable Detective Sergeant Ronnie Brooks (Bradley Walsh) already has a huge criminal case underway, when a lorry crash reveals a new murder. And, the identity of this body has been deliberately hidden.
Its not the best time for a detective to have to train a new colleague in particular a young officer who has come straight from child protection to the murder squad.
But DS Joe Hawkins (Ben Bailey Smith) soon proves his worth and a successful new partnership is built.
ITV is happy to see the return of the rest of the Series 7 Law & Order:UK cast in the new series.
This is series eight of ITV's highly successful drama Law & Order: UK. It is a spin off from the massively successful Dick Wolf US drama, which was the first US show to be adapted to British television in 2009. Series seven, 2013, won its time slot for every episode reaching an average audience of 5.4 million viewers and a share of 21.3%.
Ben Bailey Smith joins the cast as DS Brooks new partner, Joe. Smith is well known on the comedy circuit as rapper and stand up, Doc Brown. But since moving into acting, hes been a big success in Hunted and Midsomer Murders.
Bradley Walsh was nominated for the National Television Awards TV Detective of the Year and is hugely popular as wry, loveable, worldly-wise DS Brooks.
Bradley explains: "Im thrilled to have been in that category. Olivia Colman, Idris Elba, Benedict Cumberbatch; what great company. Its great to be shortlisted with those guys, especially when the awards are voted for by the British public.
Dominic Rowan, Georgia Taylor and Paterson Joseph also return in the new episodes. Both Georgia (Casualty, Lewis, Coronation Street) and Paterson (Babylon, The Hollow Crown, Hustle, Peep Show) joined the cast last series.
Paterson Joseph plays DI Wes Leyton, who has been in the force since the age of 18 and shares with Ronnie an innate understanding of life on the London streets.
Georgia Taylor is straight talking Crown Prosecutor Kate Passionate and stubborn, Barker resigns from a murder prosecution because she believes the young woman in the dock was acting in defence of another her young daughter.
Jake Thorne (Dominic Rowan) always prosecutes with a clear sense of right and wrong. His trickiest case this series is a teenager who looks as if butter wouldnt melt in her mouth. But what Jake has to remember is that this is a defendant charged with killing her own baby.
Peter Davison returns as respected Director of the Crown Prosecution Service, Henry Sharpe and this series, his life is threatened by a killer with a grudge. He also has to stand by while his juniors successfully campaign for a trial without a jury throwing away 800 years of constitutional law.
An array of guest stars including Helen Baxendale, Hattie Morahan, Joseph Millson, the late Roger Lloyd Pack, Colin Salmon, Roy Hudd, Christopher Fulford, Haydn Gwynne and Harriet Walter join the cast for this season.
Highlights of the new series include the death of a psychiatrist who specialises in violent juveniles and a hotel-room killing with plenty of blood, but without a body.
DS Ronnie Brooks, (Walsh), will meet his match in a drug dealer who repeatedly beats the justice system and in I Predict a Riot, hell be investigating other senior police colleagues after the skeleton of a black undercover copper is found in the boot of a car.
The series is produced by Jane Dauncey. The executive producers are Alison Jackson and Jane Featherstone for Kudos and Dick Wolf, creator and executive producer of Law & Order, for Wolf Films. It is a Kudos/Wolf Films/NBC Universal Production.
Law & Order:UK has a unique premise. The show opens at the scene of the crime, follows the investigation and trial all the way through to a verdict which isnt always what the audience will be expecting.