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BONE KICKERS Never forget ... history is now!

The team behind the superb Life on Mars and its forthcoming sequel have another major new drama serial in the works in the shape of Bonekickers, which aims to do for archaelogy what Primeval did for dinosaurs.

The top flight cast includes Julie Graha, Hugh Bonneville, Adrian Lester and Gugu Mbatha-Raw and the series has been created by Matthew Graham and Ashley Phoaroh, top writers both.

Graham plays Gillian, a feisty Celt who heads up a team of archaeologists working out of Bath University, Adrian Lester is Dr Ben Akomfrah, a forensic expert who brings an objective understanding to the team, Hugh Bonneville is the encyclopaedic but terminally louche, Professor Gregory Parton and Gugu Mbatha-Raw is the eager, young, post-grad intern, Viv Davis.

As a team their skills combine under a variety of imperatives to extract bodies, books, weapons and all manner of artefacts which lead them into an investigation of the past that will unlock dangers and mysteries in the present.

From the excavation of murdered 18th century slaves to the possible discovery of the True Cross, each episode is a window on a period of history but, more importantly, a reflection on how we live now.

Running through the series is a greater puzzle that Gillian keeps to herself for fear of ridicule – the hunt for the greatest treasure in the history of Man, a hunt that drove her brilliant mother insane, a hunt that pits her wits against her academic nemesis, the arrogant, urbane TV historian Daniel Mastif, and that will culminate at the end of series one in a desperate race for glory which may destroy her in the process.

Bonekickers begins filming in and around Bath this month and will transmit on BBC One in spring 2008.

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