New Blood is a British television drama series created by Anthony Horowitz and produced by Eleventh Hour Films for BBC One. The first three episodes of the programme were made available on BBC iPlayer on 2 June 2016, ahead of the BBC One premiere on 9 June. It received over 4 million viewers. New Blood followed on from the long-running television series New Tricks (2003-2015), also a police detective drama.
Synopsis
Stefan Kowolski and Arrash Sayyad are junior investigators; both are the children of immigrants. Initially thrown together by chance and common sporting interests, they later discover that they are working two different angles of the same case. Stefan is also attracted to Arrash's sister.
Kowolski is a junior investigator with the Serious Fraud Office, while Sayyad is a uniformed constable in London's police service, with ambitions of becoming a detective. In the first case, he secures a second posting as a Trainee Detective Constable (T/DC), having obtained poor reviews in an earlier attempt.
Cast
The main cast for the first series include: Mark Strepan as Stefan Kowolski, Junior Case Officer, SFO Ben Tavassoli as T.D.C Arrash 'Rash' Sayyad Mark Addy as D.S. Derek Sands Dorian Lough as D.I. Martin Heywood Anna Chancellor as Eleanor Davies, Director of the SFO Ariyon Bakare as Marcus Johnson, Senior Case Officer, SFO Kimberley Nixon as Alison White, Junior Case Officer, SFO Aiysha Hart as Leila Sayyad, Junior Nurse, Arrash's sister Mark Bonnar as Peter Mayhew, Government Health Advisor