Denis Lawson joins the ninth series of BBC One’s New Tricks as the new recruit to Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman’s (Amanda Redman) team of retired ex-coppers reinvestigating the Met’s unsolved crimes.

The antithesis of Brian Lane’s eternal pessimism, retired Detective Inspector Steve McAllister (Denis Lawson) is a bundle of energetic optimism with a tendency to get personally involved in the cases he’s working on.

Breaking rules and ignoring procedure are all in a day’s work for Pullman’s team, but even by Gerry Standing’s (Dennis Waterman) and Brian Lane’s (Alun Armstrong) standards, Steve's unorthodox, and sometimes unprofessional, approach to policing raises a few eyebrows.

Acorn Media have announced that New Tricks Series 7 will be released exclusively early from their website from mid February before a general release later in the year. The DVD is available for pre order now by visiting the New Tricks DVD section on the website.

Acorn Media has announced that the latest series of the popular BBC police drama New Tricks is to be given an exclusive early DVD release date this week on its website ahead of a general release later in the year.