TV Series · 2003 · TV Series · 2000s
New Tricks
Scored from 67 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2000s (1,360 peers).
Summary
Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, sidelined after an armed operation goes wrong, is handed the Metropolitan Police's Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad and told to staff it with retired officers. She recruits three: Brian Lane, obsessive and encyclopaedic; Jack Halford, a widower who still visits his dead wife's grave; and Gerry Standing, thrice-divorced and comfortable in grey areas. Reopening cases closed years earlier, they work old contacts and older instincts against modern procedure and against senior officers who would rather certain files stayed shut. The BBC series pairs cold-case investigation with comedy about retirement, and turned over most of its original cast across twelve series.
Released in 2003, New Tricks is a crime and drama television series. Episodes run about 1h. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom.
Only 67 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 75 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s television series — 1,360 of them. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 3 of whom clear the calibration test.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where New Tricks lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against TV Series · 2000s (1,360 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 67.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
