In the Lab, a team of experts can lift a fingerprint from skin. Can extract the exact location of a crime from the last breath left in the lungs of a corpse. Can determine who gave the victim their last kiss.

The crime, the moment of death, the abduction, the attack, is never witnessed. You'll never meet a perp or a vic and the cops are merely walk-ons.

This must-see series for crime fans takes us to unseen places: away from police investigations and into a labyrinthian world of labs where forensic details are harvested to reveal the absolute truth behind a crime.

Our heroes are the Forensics, the analysts, the psychologists. The Lab Rats. They process the crime and they live out their lives. In The Lab, as well as discovering the 'hidden detail' behind crime, we fall in love with the characters, their community and their exceptional abilities...

Barbara Machin is the creator and part of the writing & producing team of BBC1's Emmy winning series 'Waking The Dead', now in its 9th year. Her TV films include 'Pattern of Life', 'Devil's Advocate', 'Carla', 'The Investigator' and 'Unsuitable Job For A Woman'.

Her BBC1 crime thriller 'Kiss of Death' transmitted in 2008. She currently has crime series in development with both ITV and the BBC.