Has Trial and Retribution been axed?

I haven't heard anything about it being axed, but you never know with ITV - they tend to stockpile new episodes of drama series and only show them a year or two later.

The "new" series of Law & Order UK starting in January is actually the second half of the first series which was held back from early 2009. They could have new episodes of T&R sitting on the shelf ready to be transmitted.

In all honesty, I hope it's over. So far there have been 22 episodes. The first 8 were all superior, highly stylised and on occasion truly gut-wrenching compared with what followed.

Number 9: The Lovers was promising until realising the plot was lifted wholesale from Tim Krabbé's novel The Golden Egg adapted flawlessly by George Sluizer for Spoorloos aka The Vanishing in 1988, which he pointlessly remade for the American audience in 1993 as The Vanishing; an utterly pointless film, bereft of the suspense and verisimilitude of his original film. Fans of the original Trial & Retribution series should see Spoorloos.
The rest of the Trial & Retribution series went downhill from there. They were still good but this is typical of a series starting out wonderfully and deteriorating into hackneyed stories full of clichés and badly drawn stereotypes. Such a shame because the first 8 were truly remarkable but what’s left after them is watered down, shortened stories, half of which stink of plagiarism. As if that wasn’t enough, many of them completely omitted any courtroom trials, which was at least half the initial impetus that drove this once superior series of police procedural epics.



What we see as spectacle is in fact a ceremony

well, the actors are doing something else so it doesn't seem very promising. I know the tread is a bit old but please say if you hear about new episodes or if it has been axed, cause im from Denmark and not completely updated on english channels and programs. I love this serie.

Such a pity. I, for one, thought this show was brilliant in almost every aspect, including the later seasons. So much trash out there (mostly US); it's a shame series' like this don't receive the wide-spread attention and appreciation they deserve.