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City Homicide.
City Homicide is a home grown Australian cop show that has run since 2007, somehow it seems longer. It has an unusual revolving door policy of the lead characters, each of them disappearing for periods and then coming back. Currently Shane Bourne who plays Sargent Stanley Wolfe is absent, for no apparent reason. This has happened in the past with Jennifer Mapplethorpe (Nadine Gardner), Duncan Freedman (Aaron Pedersen) and Bernice Waverley (Noni Hazlehurst), although reasons have been given for their periods of absence from the story lines. I can only guess that the actors have other commitments and they have some sort of loose flexible contract with this show.
Shane Bourne, Noni Hazlehurst, Aaron Pedersen, Nadine Garner, Damien Richardson, and Daniel MacPherson. Where do they go?
Daniel MacPherson played Simon Joyner, one of the lead detectives, from the commencement of the show. But he left earlier this year to go Dancing with the D Listers (are any of them actually stars?). It was a pity because the boy from Neighbours had finally learned to stop grinning in every scene. Unlike his spell in the British cop show The Bill, where he seemed to have no control over his grin muscles. “There’s been a murder” Grin.
Daniel MacPherson, winners are grinners, but not Coppers
The story lines for City Homicide are pretty good and it is definitely watchable. Last nights show was the story of a murder victim who was involved in the martial arts and featured no less than five suspects and the murderer turned out to be none of them. But in some cases the acting is kind of stiff, particularly from a couple of the new detectives Allie Kingston (Nadia Townsend) and Nick Buchanan (John Adam). Maybe that is the story lines, which often take many episodes to develop. Nick Buchanan turned out to have previously worked undercover with Jennifer Mapplethorpe and they were unable to let anyone else know. They are now having a rather passionless affair. This week’s show began a look into Allie Kingston’s past and her broken relationship with her mother.
I’ll keep watching, but there are number of things that separate this from being a really great cop show.
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Is anyone watching the latest episodes of City Homicide? What a long ongoing saga. I think the running story has gone on for four episodes now.
Nick Buchanan was dating a journalist, played by the lovely Claire van der Boom, who was also investigating him for fitting up a wife killer many years before. Nick wasn’t party to the fit up, but his Sargent was. The journalist got shot and last night his ex-Sargent shot himself and Nick resigned from the force. The story continues next week.
The saga continues. We found out that the Cricketer did not kill his wife, it was her father, well sort of. She fell down the stairs, then he bashed her with a golf club to make it look like his son in law the Cricketer did it. But we still don’t know who killed the journalist and planted the car bomb. Then Nick Buchanan was run over at the end of the last episode.
The trailers are hinting that it is the end of the show, but I never trust trailers. But I will be tuning in next week to see if any of this is resolved.