BBC One's long-running crime drama, Silent Witness, returns with a fresh cast and a new head of the Lyell Centre, Harriet Maven. Played by Maggie Steed, Harriet's arrival brings immediate friction with Jack Hodgson, particularly her constant piano practicing. The series opener sees a murder investigation involving a victim with vascular dementia.
In an age of cosy crime, the forensics drama feels refreshingly radical in its 28th series? Nuclear war perhaps, or robots taking over the work of the forensics bods at the Lyell Centre? Either way, BBC One’s long-running (since 1996) crime drama continues to show almostThere certainly seems to have been a wholesale cast clear-out since the last series, with no sign of Velvy (Alastair Michael), Gabriel (Aki Omoshaybi) or Cara (Rhiannon May).
In fact, newly engaged lovebirds Dr Nikki Alexander and Jack Hodgson (and David Caves) had the place to themselves as the new series began, taking advantage of their solitude for a spot of canoodling. They were rudely interrupted by the arrival of workmen lugging (of all things) a grand piano – followed by the piano player herself. This was the Lyell Centre’s new head, Harriet Maven (Maggie Steed), who’d been called out of retirement (in Jack’s words) “to save us”. As his aggrieved comment suggests, there was instant friction between Harriet and Jack. Constantly practising her piano scales while Jack and Nikki try to focus on their work didn’t exactly help. Maggie Steed as the Lyell Centre’s new head, Harriet Maven, adds pep to the proceedings (Photo: Chris Baker/BBC)– is an asset to any TV show and has already added some welcome pep to the proceedings. Her maverick spikiness will provide some welcome contrast to Jack and Nikki cooing at each other.which those with a Bible to hand (or more likely, Google) would have discovered is about not coveting your neighbour’s house, wife, male servant, ox or donkey. What seemed to be coveted here was a timbered country house recently owned by a murder victim. We met this elderly woman in a woozy pre-credit sequence. Suffering from vascular dementia and under the illusion that she was picking foxgloves with a youthful sweetheart (in fact, an all too real ne’er-do-well), she was led to a cave and left to di
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