"ASHES To ASHES"

[Mayor Gregory]

Sneak Preview :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPG39o124R4

[Mayor Gregory]

And the airtime Trailer :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Enn6zc9ug-o&feature=related

[mztx71]

BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!! :D:exit::exit::exit::exit: Can't wait! :p Lovin Gene Hunt! :D

[Ome]

Bloody Brilliant Chuck !

[Final Terror]

Cannot Wait!

[mztx71]

Seems to be a general air of anticipation surrounding this. I know a couple of friends are planning their week around Thursday 9.00 pm! :D:exit::exit: Beeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrring it on Mr Hunt! :exit:

[Mayor Gregory]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDmYwGkJa7k

[mztx71]

"Don't move you're surrounded by armed bastards" http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e295/mzt71/rofl.gif Classic! :D

[mztx71]

One hour to go, can't wait! :D

[mztx71]

That was absolutely brilliant! Already best show on the box! :exit::exit::exit:

Nice to see Zippy & George making a special cameo appearance! :D

Gene Hunt had me laughing right from his opening line.........

"Your diary entry for today will be, took a prossy hostage and got shot by three armed bastards" :D

Also was taken right back to my school discos at the end with Roxy Music Same Old Scene! :peace:

:cheers:

[Mr.M.Texas]

i didnt know this was on:( is there going to be a repeat please?

[ChrisSumnerMatheson]

We just finished the series finale of Life on Mars so I can't wait for this to arrive in America. I'll let you all know what I think when it arrives in a year or two.

[Pamela Barnes]

That was absolutely brilliant! Already best show on the box! :exit::exit::exit:

Nice to see Zippy & George making a special cameo appearance! :D

Gene Hunt had me laughing right from his opening line.........

"Your diary entry for today will be, took a prossy hostage and got shot by three armed bastards" :D

Also was taken right back to my school discos at the end with Roxy Music Same Old Scene! :peace:

:cheers:

I'v been out but recorded it. Watching it as I type. Wonderful stuff. The concept really works on so many levels.

[Pamela Barnes]

i didnt know this was on:( is there going to be a repeat please?

Its in BBC iPlayer.

[joan w]

Gene Hunt is brill.

[Mayor Gregory]

... the move from Manchester is a bit of a pity
- and the back-story for Sam a bit unsatisfactory,
but the mood/feel of Eighties was a nice reminder
- if a little more like 1984/85 - too New Romantic too soon
- 1981 was more ska and black & white fashion, no ?

Anyhow Glenister is CLASS, and about the only male character
allowed to be un-pc, and true-to-type - EastEnders take note.

Thursday night is now "Fire Up the Quattro" Night :D

[Pamela Barnes]

Well they have to wear WHo shot JR t-shirts at some point if its 1981. I am hope they dedicate a dream type sequence to Dallas as they did with Zippy and Bungle.

They could really play on it like they did with Sam and the chalk girl. Such as T-shirts appear as I shot PC blah blah (dont know her name yet). She was shot, so it all ties in rather nicely.

If they dont mention it then its not very 1981 is it. :)

Oh it was 1980 wasnt it. Never mind then. :D

[Barbara Fan]

Well they have to wear WHo shot JR t-shirts at some point if its 1981. I am hope they dedicate a dream type sequence to Dallas as they did with Zippy and Bungle.

They could really play on it like they did with Sam and the chalk girl. Such as T-shirts appear as I shot PC blah blah (dont know her name yet). She was shot, so it all ties in rather nicely.

If they dont mention it then its not very 1981 is it. :)

Oh it was 1980 wasnt it. Never mind then. :D

I enjoyed it!!
Who shot JR was year before Pamela!! the T shirts were back in the drawer in 81!! not cool! :)

[mztx71]

Thursday night is now "Fire Up the Quattro" Night [/B]:D

It sure is!! :D :exit:

[Dynasty Dave]

The 80's has NEVER looked so good... it was fantastic

I loved it!

Its fab!

Roll on next week...

That actress(whats her name?)is awe inspiring.

I love her

x

[Dynasty Dave]

It sure is!! :D :exit:

Hell yeah!

Awsome!

x

[mztx71]

Guys BBC NOW!!! Philip Glenister aka Gene Hunt the legend the man on Jonathan Ross tonight! :D

[Mayor Gregory]

... always good to hear Glenister talk - actually unlike Gene in every way,
shows the fine job he does stepping into Gene's (cowboy) boots :wiggle:

[Pamela Barnes]

I enjoyed it!!
Who shot JR was year before Pamela!! the T shirts were back in the drawer in 81!! not cool! :)

But Dallas was a huge thing at this point. It was very much engrained into the early to mid 80's so it would be odd for them not to refer to it.

Only Fools and Horses started this year.

Postman Pat

Dynasty and Falcon Crest :)

[mztx71]

Wouldn't surprise me if during the course of the series, Gene Hunt makes some reference to ole JR! :D

[Mayor Gregory]

Wouldn't surprise me if during the course of the series, Gene Hunt makes some reference to ole JR! :D

... well he IS wearing cowboy boots :wiggle:

[Mayor Gregory]

Episode 2 - Sees the ACTUAL Steve Strange playing himself

on stage singing the Visage classic "Fade To Grey"

- lots of white face make-up & good lighting, hats off to him for looking the "same" :wiggle:

[mztx71]

Episode 2 - Sees the ACTUAL Steve Strange playing himself

on stage singing the Visage classic "Fade To Grey"

- lots of white face make-up & good lighting, hats off to him for looking the "same" :wiggle:

Love that song! :exit: And Steve obviously has similar genes to myself! ;)

[Mayor Gregory]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r44OFO-MNPo

Here's Mr Bowie in the Ashes to Ashes video
... that clown, is SO creepy in the series !!

[Mayor Gregory]

Episode 2 - revolves around Princess Diana & Prince Charles wedding in 1981

... set the recording devices PP :)

[mztx71]

Really looking forward to tomorrow night @ 9.00 pm! :partytime:exit:

[Dynasty Dave]

Yey - I cant wait for toinghts eppisode

:exit:

[Pamela Barnes]

Me too. I was really thinking about having our own forum but perhaps a thread will suffice. I just love it so much.

They capture the time so well. I watch and wish I could go back to that time in many ways. :D

[Mayor Gregory]

... Episode 1 "Deja Vu" - the end scene in the bar

with Roxy Music's "Same Old Scene" was a superb ending :)

[mztx71]

... Episode 1 "Deja Vu" - the end scene in the bar

with Roxy Music's "Same Old Scene" was a superb ending :)

Totally agree!! I LOVE that song and it fitted the mood so well! Brilliant! :exit::exit:

[Dynasty Dave]

... Episode 1 "Deja Vu" - the end scene in the bar

with Roxy Music's "Same Old Scene" was a superb ending :)

Wasnt it just! OMG

It gave me goose bumps and I thought "oh dear here we go... Im hooked"

The way she accepted that wine form the great Gene Hunt, as if she had just succumbed to the fact that she was there... and there to stay a while... the way the music and acting made me think... here we go... this has only just started.

AA Gill for the Sunday Times gave it a right old roating. I usualy hang off of every word he says... but how can anyone say that Keeley Hawes "could not arrest an audience if she came on naked with a "this way up" sticker on hern bottom. Shes like a character thats excaped form a Depeche Mode video"

Well this lady had me spellbound and Gill can go do a running starjump.

By the way... is she currently in that add for Boots?

The one wher she is talking about moisturiser?

x

[Mayor Gregory]

By the way... is she currently in that add for Boots?

The one wher she is talking about moisturiser?

x

Yes she is Dave, Boots number 7, haha :)

[mztx71]

I remember her in that lesbian thing, Tipping or Kissing The Velvet, something like that! :)

[Dynasty Dave]

Yes she is Dave, Boots number 7, haha :)

Thats so weird. You know waht adverts are like. People dont tend to stand out from adverts. She bloody did! When I seen that add I was like "wow... who is that"...

Now here she is... prime time! OMG Im in love!

:peace:

[Dynasty Dave]

I watch and wish I could go back to that time in many ways. :D

Me to Pamela... Its so well done

The 80s have NEVER looked better

Go on... get us a forum going!!!

:partytime

[Dynasty Dave]

I remember her in that lesbian thing, Tipping or Kissing The Velvet, something like that! :)

Pardon? Do spill... I have no idea what this is...

Is it recent?

x

[mztx71]

Pardon? Do spill... I have no idea what this is...

Is it recent?

x

Not recent, at a guess was on about 4 years ago. Here's a link.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/tippingthevelvet/

[Dynasty Dave]

OMG - Lesbiano

Thanks for the link

:thanks:

[Mayor Gregory]

... indeed Dave, in "Tipping the Velvet" Keeley went "clothing optional" ;)
... and the title hinted at the nature of the "liaisons"... enjoy :)

[Dynasty Dave]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/faces/keeley_hawes.shtml

x

[mztx71]

Must say very disappointed with tonight's episode because.....................................It ended!! :sosad: :D

Absolutely bloody brilliant, haven't been this addicted to anything on the box since Dallas! :D

Loved the snooker ball in the bollock scene :D Hunt is a legend! :! :D

Loved the New Romantics Club! Loved the Chas n Dave conga :D

Just marvellous, all of it! :exit::exit::exit:

[Dynasty Dave]

"Less irony... little more Dynasty please"

OMG - How long did it take for a reference?

Old JR never got in there did he?

Fabulous!

:partytime

[mztx71]

"Less irony... little more Dynasty please"

OMG - How long did it take for a reference?

Old JR never got in there did he?

Fabulous!

:partytime

There's time yet!! :D

[Mayor Gregory]

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g261/GregSumner/heroes.jpg

Episode 3 sees the team undercover in fancy-dress

... with the Gene Genie as his hero Clint Eastwood :D

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g261/GregSumner/GREGSAMGENE.jpg

[mztx71]

Greg! Lovin your siggy, it's more than fabulous! :exit:

[Mayor Gregory]

Greg! Lovin your siggy, it's more than fabulous! :exit:

:) Thanking you kindly hon' :) :peace:

[mztx71]

Another tremendous episode tonight! So loving this series! :exit: Gene Hunt was in fine form tonight with his one liners! :D

The guy who said the gnomes were for his mother, when cracked open were found to reveal several bags of coke. Gene Hunt - "Who your mother, Marianne Faithfull?" :D :D

[Ome]

Even I managed to watch this on time tonight. Indeed was another cracker.

What was that gag about the Kebab, a pasty with it's arse hanging out :D:D:D:D

[mztx71]

Even I managed to watch this on time tonight. Indeed was another cracker.

What was that gag about the Kebab, a pasty with it's arse hanging out :D:D:D:D

Brilliant! He has such a way with words! :D

[Ome]

The one where Trixie tells him it was dark and then spoke of how he said she was beautiful.....

What did he come out with after that lol lol lol

[mztx71]

The one where Trixie tells him it was dark and then spoke of how he said she was beautiful.....

What did he come out with after that lol lol lol

"Must've been bloody dark" :D

[Ome]

Yeah that's it, I was laughing too hard to catch the whole thing lol lol lol lol

[mztx71]

Playing some Roxy Music tracks too. "Over You" :peace: Ah boy, always lurved that one! :peace:

[Ome]

Never been a Roxy fan, but hearing them last week and tonight, I started to think maybe I should download a few.

What do you recommend ?

[mztx71]

Never been a Roxy fan, but hearing them last week and tonight, I started to think maybe I should download a few.

What do you recommend ?

I would recommend - Dance Away, More Than This, Same Old Scene & Over You. :peace::peace:

[joan w]

Gene-genius........i Love Him!!

[Dynasty Dave]

:hello: Hi Joan

Its so fantastic isnt it?

People in the press are saying that Keeley is wooden...

I dont see that... I love her

What do you guys think?

x

[WalfordMafia]

I am absolutely loving Ashes to Ashes. I appreciate how regarded the preceeding series, Life on Mars was as a high-concept British drama, but something about it didn't grab me. Being a far bigger fan of 80s pop-culture in general, however, I was excited from the moment I saw the first publicity shot of Keeley Hawes with her huge flick-perm, blue eye-shadow and fur coat.

Every episode has been great so far. The backlash is highly unnecessary (and phenomenally predictable!) if you ask me, and seems to be either supremely nit-pickity or purely for the fact that it's not John Simms in 1974. I find it almost incomprehensible how Keeley Hawes has shouldered so much flack... she's really good! I can only assume some find her character's smug awareness irritating - and I concede it does grate a bit, her constant refrences to her own sub-concious - but it doesn't detract from proceedings that much, does it. Hell, it's the basic concept of the show! But she's thrown herself into the part with a gleeful abandon that you hardly see any more with leading ladies. I think she's fantastic, and every bit the actor Simm was as Sam Tyler.

I read a review on the web, I think on the Guardian website, that sited points such as in-accuracies in use of music (apparently the song Steve Strange sang in last weeks episode was released a number of months before the episode was set. If that ruined the story for any Guardian readers, then they really ought get out more...), or trends in style (such as the show featuring red brace wearing Thatcherite Yuppies five years too early, when Sloane Rangers were more common at the time) as short-comings in the shows credibility. I understand where they're coming from, but they're infuriatingly priggish people, aren't they! The show has the trump in it's corner (this is just Alex Drake's recollection of 1981, so may not be entirely accurate. it's a get-out-of-jail-free card for the critics to suck on), and anyway, if you ask me it's a "period drama", where the "drama" takes precedent over the "period". I love it, and i'll continue to love it. Fire up the Quattro!

[mztx71]

I think Keeley's doing a fine job! I can't find one critical thing to say about this show! :)

[Dynasty Dave]

WalfordMafia you really are a talented poster...

:good:

x

[Ome]

When I've been watching this show, I've always wondered where I knew Marshall Lancaster, and it's just clicked, he played Slug on Corrie :D

[Mayor Gregory]

When I've been watching this show, I've always wondered where I knew Marshall Lancaster,
and it's just clicked, he played Slug on Corrie :D

... "doesn't make him a bad bloke" :)

[Mayor Gregory]

(on the Charles & Diana 1981 Royal Wedding)

Gene Hunt : "There will be no hiccups between now and the twanging of the Royal hymen" :D

[mztx71]

(on the Charles & Diana 1981 Royal Wedding)

Gene Hunt : "There will be no hiccups between now and the twanging of the Royal hymen" :D

Brilliant! :D

[Mayor Gregory]

(Gene Hunt driving the Audi Quattro VERY fast)

Chris : Steady on guv', I nearly lost my breakfast there
Gene : What the Hell is that thing ?
Chris : A kebab
Gene : Looks like a pastie with it's arse hanging out !

[mztx71]

Another fabulous episode tonight! :exit:

[Pamela Barnes]

I am absolutely loving Ashes to Ashes. I appreciate how regarded the preceeding series, Life on Mars was as a high-concept British drama, but something about it didn't grab me. Being a far bigger fan of 80s pop-culture in general, however, I was excited from the moment I saw the first publicity shot of Keeley Hawes with her huge flick-perm, blue eye-shadow and fur coat.

Every episode has been great so far. The backlash is highly unnecessary (and phenomenally predictable!) if you ask me, and seems to be either supremely nit-pickity or purely for the fact that it's not John Simms in 1974. I find it almost incomprehensible how Keeley Hawes has shouldered so much flack... she's really good! I can only assume some find her character's smug awareness irritating - and I concede it does grate a bit, her constant refrences to her own sub-concious - but it doesn't detract from proceedings that much, does it. Hell, it's the basic concept of the show! But she's thrown herself into the part with a gleeful abandon that you hardly see any more with leading ladies. I think she's fantastic, and every bit the actor Simm was as Sam Tyler.

I read a review on the web, I think on the Guardian website, that sited points such as in-accuracies in use of music (apparently the song Steve Strange sang in last weeks episode was released a number of months before the episode was set. If that ruined the story for any Guardian readers, then they really ought get out more...), or trends in style (such as the show featuring red brace wearing Thatcherite Yuppies five years too early, when Sloane Rangers were more common at the time) as short-comings in the shows credibility. I understand where they're coming from, but they're infuriatingly priggish people, aren't they! The show has the trump in it's corner (this is just Alex Drake's recollection of 1981, so may not be entirely accurate. it's a get-out-of-jail-free card for the critics to suck on), and anyway, if you ask me it's a "period drama", where the "drama" takes precedent over the "period". I love it, and i'll continue to love it. Fire up the Quattro!

Also the smurfs in last nights episode. Im sure the one who was supposed to be on a bike was released in like 83. Not that Im a smurf expert :D

But who cares. It is the best thing on TV. I love it.

I think we will try out a forum because I have so many theories and Im sure you will indulge me. Unlike my friends who dont really get the show. :D

[Mayor Gregory]

Episode 5 sees Gene & his crew visit the 80's London Gay scene,
not the Gene Genie's most comfortable 55 minutes ahead, haha :)

[BJR]

This video is not available in your country.

:(. Mayor!!!

[Mayor Gregory]

This video is not available in your country.

:(. Mayor!!!

Dont worry Bastard, and don't bother to make much sense as usual,
the wonderful "Life On Mars" is to be aired / being aired on US channels, as will "Ashes To Ashes"
... and there's talk of a US remake, you know the usual - different & worse. ;)

[WalfordMafia]

I just watched Episode Four. There's something greatly satisfying about Ashes to Ashes. It's a proper, high-concept, grown-up and ambitious drama that's well written and produced, and alongside Skins highlights just how good British television can be.

It was a less colourful episode than previous, oddly evocative of an 80s set Avengers story, with it's secret codes and underground government bunker, but great fun nonetheless. Gene's "how many women does it take to change a lightbulb" jibe had me in wickedly chauvinistic stitches. One thing that niggles ever-so-slightly and gives the critics ammo, is: if this whole scenario is openly acknowledged as Alex Drakes sub-conscious recollection of the early 80s, how do scenes not involving Drakes fit in? The good-cop/bad-cop routine between Carling and Skelton, for example. Sam Tyler was involved in practically every scene in Life on Mars, which added a watertight-ness to the storyline. It doesn't bother me too much, but it is a valid criticism.

[Mayor Gregory]

if this whole scenario is openly acknowledged as Alex Drakes sub-conscious recollection of the early 80s, how do scenes not involving Drakes fit in? The good-cop/bad-cop routine between Carling and Skelton, for example. Sam Tyler was involved in practically every scene in Life on Mars, which added a watertight-ness to the storyline. It doesn't bother me too much, but it is a valid criticism.


Good point WalfordMafia - and I thought of this during "Life On Mars"
- where if you re-watch there ARE a lot more scenes than you'd think
where Sam isn't present - think we have to put it down to the in-limbo cops
having very active character-driven narrative imaginations :D

[mztx71]

Gene Hunt at his brilliant best tonight! :D "Tinker Taylor, Soldier Twat" :D

[joan w]

:hello: Hi Joan

Its so fantastic isnt it?

People in the press are saying that Keeley is wooden...

I dont see that... I love her

What do you guys think?

x

Hi DD- I think the whole show, and cast are fabulous.
(l)(l)

[mztx71]

Trying to remember some of his other lines from this weeks episode, there were so many, never stopped laughing! :D

What was the one exactly about sticking a dildo so far up your arse it'll give your tonsils a treat? :D Something like that :D

[joan w]

I am still daydreaming about being stuck in a vault with Gene Hunt!!
NOTE TO SELF: Pull yourself together woman-your'e nearly 50. lol

[mztx71]

I am still daydreaming about being stuck in a vault with Gene Hunt!!
NOTE TO SELF: Pull yourself together woman-your'e nearly 50. lol

Was it the vest joan? ;) Was something rather sexy about the vault! :lolo:

[joan w]

Was it the vest joan? ;) Was something rather sexy about the vault! :lolo:


Indeed Carol. the vest was rather fetching!! :)
If I had been trapped in the vault with him, it would not have been it's airtight door, that caused the heavy breathing. :p:p

[mztx71]

Indeed Carol. the vest was rather fetching!! :)
If I had been trapped in the vault with him, it would not have been it's airtight door, that caused the heavy breathing. :p:p

Arrrrrr Aye joan, you go gerl, rip that sweaty vest of his body! :D:lolo:

[Mayor Gregory]

"It's MURDER, and murder isn't about politics... it's about money sex bloody women !" (Gene Hunt) :D

[Mayor Gregory]

"You are an instrument of a fascist state" (feminist protestor)

"I'll show you an instrument of the state if you dont give me some bloody answers" (Gene Hunt) :D

[Mayor Gregory]

"How many women does it take to change a lightbulb?
... two - 1 to shout 'what do we do?', 2nd to shag the electrician" (Gene Hunt) :D

[Mayor Gregory]

"What if its commie spies, reds-under-the beds
- you're the one spreading the Scooby Doo bollocks" (Gene Hunt) :D

[Mayor Gregory]

"Very good, very poppy - dont expect me to dance to it though!!"

(Gene Hunt, when Alex puts OMD "Enola Gay" on the radio :D)

[Mayor Gregory]

when asked about CI5...

"I'm a copper I don't like those Scooby Doo Bastards,
especially when they've been eating MY porridge" (Gene Hunt) :D

[Mayor Gregory]

"So what are ya, a C or a D cup ?" (Gene Hunt) :D

[Mayor Gregory]

"I have made contact, eye-balling the suspect..." (Chris Skelton)

"Just FOLLOW him you dickhead" (Gene Hunt) :D

[Mayor Gregory]

"We are coppers NOT spies, look at us
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Twat !!" (Gene Hunt) :D

[mztx71]

"We are coppers NOT spies, look at us
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Twat !!" (Gene Hunt) :D

Hahaha I rolled at that one! :D

[Mayor Gregory]

"it was a perfectly innocent encounter" (Alex Drake)

"first time I've heard shit-stabbing called innocent !" (Gene Hunt) :D

[Mayor Gregory]

"Get a waft of that - Man Stink!!"

... "see if that doesn't moisten your gusset!!" (Gene Hunt) :D

[Mayor Gregory]

"Bloody judges - wouldn't recognise a villian
if he burned his house down, raped his wife
and jumped up and down on his beaky face !!"

... "and don't get me started on bloody juries !!" (Gene Hunt) :D

[mztx71]

Hahahahahahahaha Thanks for the reminders of the last brilliant episode. So many I forgot them all! :D

[Mayor Gregory]

"it will take more than an imaginery peek at your arse
to keep me sweet if this all goes tits up !"(Gene Hunt) :D

[joan w]

"We are coppers NOT spies, look at us
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Twat !!" (Gene Hunt) :D

My particular favorite too. :D

[Dynasty Dave]

This was my fav one so far ...

Gene hunt is so so funny

x

[joan w]

Cant wait for tonights episode.

[mztx71]

Cant wait for tonights episode.

Neither can I! Been looking forward to it all day :wiggle:

[mztx71]

And as usual was worth the wait!:D Oh wow! Absolutely brilliant, can't wait for the DVD box set to come out!

Gene Hunt (or Hunt the ---- :D) What a hero at the end there! ;)

[joan w]

SWOOOOOOOOON!
My hero..........................lol

[mztx71]

SWOOOOOOOOON!
My hero..........................lol

It was pretty sexy! ;)

[Mayor Gregory]

"You want to sleep on the job, join the fire brigade !
... you look as rough as a badger's arse !" (Gene Hunt to a sleepy Alex Drake) :D

[Mayor Gregory]

Shaz "Is Chris there, can you pass on a messa.."

Gene "He's a bit busy being a police officer Love (turns to Chris)
- She says you're a pranny with the knob of a doormouse !" :D

[mztx71]

Shaz "Is Chris there, can you pass on a messa.."

Gene "He's a bit busy being a police officer Love (turns to Chris)
- She says you're a pranny with the knob of a doormouse !" :D

:D :D

[Dynasty Dave]

Oh dear... only one more to go

Didnt that come round fast!

:sosad:

[Mayor Gregory]

Series may be over folks - BUT series 2 of "Ashes To Ashes" to start filming in Summer :)

[mztx71]

Anyone heard any news on when the new series starts?

[Ome]

Anyone heard any news on when the new series starts?

Yes, yes I have:exit::exit:

I read this today;


Watch out for series two in 2009


So my guess is it should be sometime this next 12 months.


Hope that helps chuck ;)

[Mayor Gregory]

There are to be 2 further series - 3 in total,
then Phil Glennister wants it to end - and it will end
when Glennister wants, "no Phil, no show" producers have said.

Personally I'm surprised it will run longer than Life On Mars.

the tone is supposed to get darker - hope so, LOM was better due to the heavier tone.

[Mayor Gregory]

... however the rumour also exists that Glennister wants
to do just 1 more series and end it abruptly on a high,
not been too happy with series 1 and yes - wants it darker :cool:

[mztx71]

Hope there will be another 2, sounds good, can't wait for it to return sometime this year!! lol

[Mayor Gregory]

Ashes to Ashes star Philip Glenister says he'll quit his role
as rogue detective Gene Hunt if the next series isn't up to scratch.

He said: "We had problems with the last run set in the 80s
as we tried to make it different from its 70s predecessor Life on Mars.

"So we'll need to iron out any mistakes for the six new episodes we'll be filming.

"I don't know how long it can go on for, though. If Gene starts to become a caricature, then I'll stop."

But Philip, 45, admitted: "The role of Gene has been a highlight of my career."

[Emma'sfan]

the BBC America is going to start airing series one really soon :D

[Mayor Gregory]

the BBC America is going to start airing series one really soon :D

Cool, enjoy it when it lands :cool:

[DoTreadOnMe]

Been watching here in the States and its been really good.

It also has subtitles too, they didnt have the subtitles on the first episode but I guess they got request from the American Audience. It is difficult to understand what Gene is saying sometimes.

I like the scenes when she gets to confront her mum. Being able to tell her how she feels, as an adult and expressing the feelings she had as a child.

And the play between her and Gene is really good, the scene when they are locked up together and Gene tells the Good Lord he might fail. HA.


Great show and characters.

[mztx71]

OMG ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I'm so excited. Just seen the trailer for the new series on the beeb and it's coming soon. It looks fabulous there with Spandau ballet playing in the background. Can't wait:exit::exit::exit::exit::exit::exit::exit::exi t::partytime

[Mayor Gregory]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJzsmkbuFSc

[artic.chunkies]

The season was great and good end of season cliffhanger. Cant wait to see the season 3 comeing next year.