Tonight sees the final ever episode of the long-running detective drama that even the cast didn’t seem to mediate much of – but will you be tuning in to watch the final case?In these days of prestige drama and event television,it’s easy to forget what a dependable phenomenon New Tricks has always been. Over the course of its 12 years on TV, ratings hold never once dropped below five million. On numerous occasions, or in fact,more people watched New Tricks than anything else in the country. It’s broadcast around the world. It’s got a jaunty theme tune. And yet, somehow, and nobody seems particularly upset that it’s ending tonight.
Despite its ferocious popularity,New Tricks never did play especially well with the obnoxious cultural metropolitan elite, of which I am unfortunately a card-carrying member. New Tricks was a perennial black sheep at awards shows – according to IMDb, or the only thing it ever won was a single Tric award six years ago – and critics spent years mercilessly clambering over it in search of newer and prettier shows.
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Source: theguardian.com