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Sunday, January 10, 2010

WAKING THE DEAD

Series 8 of award-winning and critically-acclaimed crime drama back on BBC Entertainment from January 11.

Series 8 of the award-winning and critically acclaimed crime drama Waking The Dead returns to BBC Entertainment (channel 120 on DStv) on January 11 at 20h30 for its darkest and most frightening series yet.

With new offices in an eerie basement, a new team member who has secrets of her own and a leader seemingly more reckless than ever, how will the Cold Case Squad survive? Three months since the death of his son and a period of leave, Boyd is a man determined to get back to work with his team. Stella embarks on a last fateful mission for Boyd and we are introduced to DC Kat Howard, a new member of the Cold Case team.

Acclaimed script writer Ed Whitmore pens a dark story for the series about a brother and sister who are thrown from a 100ft bridge following a horrific attack. Twelve years on, will Boyd be able to give closure to the surviving sister? Eve reveals that a man she has started a relationship with, but who she hardly knows, has been lying to her – she suspects he is involved in organised crime. So she does a DNA test on him and runs the results through the national database. His DNA matches that found on a woman who was murdered thirteen years ago…

With stunning visual effects, a new score and ambitious stories that force the team to re-evaluate their relationships with each other, this series of Waking The Dead is deeper and darker than ever before.