The ninth and final season of Waking the Dead is due to start on BBC One on Sunday 13 March 2011 with Trevor Eve as Detective Superintendent David Boyd.

The final series of BBC's crime drama Waking the Dead is due to start on Sunday 13 March 2011. This will be ninth series of the long-running drama about the Metropolitan Police's cold case unit and sees the return of Detective Superintendent David Boyd (played by Trevor Eve) leading the team.
Written by Ed Whitmore, Timothy Prager and Richard Warlow, the series will also see the return of Grace Foley (played by Sue Johnston), Eve Lockhart (played by Tara FitzGerald) and Spencer Jordan (played by Wil Johnson), but they will be joined by new recruit Sarah Cavendish, played by Eva Birthistle. She is an ex-counter terrorism officer and has been foisted on Boyd by his superiors, and he is not altogether happy about the situation, especially as she matches him in rank. She is also suffering from post-traumatic stress and that causes problems for the team.

Emmy award winning Waking The Dead was created by Barbara Machin and first appeared on BBC One in 2000. Since then, it has produced ninety-two hours of viewing. The audience at one point peaked at 9.5 million viewers. The 2000 launch was with a two-part pilot episode. It went down well and the first series proper was broadcast in 2001 and comprised four stories, each told over two hour-long episodes in what became the standard format for the future series. Another four stories across eight episodes comprised season two in 2002 and season three in 2003. The BBC became more ambitious with season four in 2004, with twelve episodes telling six stories. This format was repeated for season five in 2005, season six in 2007 and season seven in 2008. For season eight in 2009, the BBC went back to the formula of four two-part stories. The new season nine, which the BBC says will be the last, will contain ten episodes and comprise five two-part stories.