Top Telly - BBC series Ashes to Ashes

Top Telly

►Inside Men

BBC 4-part drama about three men working a security depot and decide to rob it.

►One Night

Set over one blisteringly hot summer's night when nerves are frayed and tensions ride high, the BBC’s One Night is the story of four ordinary people whose fates are linked by a seemingly inconsequential event.

Buy the DVD of the programme from Amazon

Pages on popular quality drama television series and one-off dramas:

Bouquet of Barbed Wire

Crimzon Petal & The White

Inspector George Gently

Lark Rise to Candleford

Series currently on telly: Call The Midwife Eternal Law Hustle Law & Order: UK Sherlock Wild At Heart

The Suspicions of Mr W

Taggart

Torchwood: Miracle Day

Mobile version

Quality new UK television drama

Angels practicing law - Whatever next?

The Inside Men are after the money

The con is on again in the new series of Hustle

Danny Trevanion and Du Plessis are still chasing the dream

Shows coming soon

Check out our blog!

“Telly

Surfer”

All the very latest telly programme news - Just click here

Homepage ► Ashes to Ashes

It's time to get your shoulder pads out of storage, start crimping your hair and get into the Eighties mood for the very last time...

The award-winning BBC One drama, Ashes To Ashes, is back for the final series.

The highly-anticipated finale sees Philip Glenister and Keeley Hawes reprise their roles as that most un-PC of policeman, DCI Gene Hunt, and his sassy partner DI Alex Drake, along with Dean Andrews as DI Ray Carling, Marshall Lancaster as DC Chris Skelton and Montserrat Lombard as WPC Sharon 'Shaz' Granger.

As well as the much-loved regular faces, Daniel Mays (The Street, Plus One) will also appear in the series as Discipline and Complaints Officer, Jim Keats, adding an exciting twist to the team dynamic.

Last time

With the last series' cliff-hanger leaving audiences with the frightening image of Alex lying shot on a hospital gurney, the questions on everyone's lips are "will Alex survive?" and "how will her colleague and accidental assassin Gene Hunt dig himself out of that hole?"

Revelations

The smash hit drama, made by Kudos Film and Television in association with Monastic Productions, finally unravels many of the mysteries from the previous two series of Ashes To Ashes, as well as those first experienced by the initial time-travelling copper, Sam Tyler, in the groundbreaking BBC One series Life On Mars some four years ago.

Will Alex finally discover why she's been sent back to the Eighties? Does anything tie Alex and Sam Tyler together? And who exactly is Gene Hunt…?

Jane Featherstone, Executive Producer, Kudos Film and Television, says: "Everyone has their own theory about who Gene Hunt is, and why Alex Drake and Sam Tyler ended up in his world.

"Alex's journey is nearing its end and Matthew Graham and Ashley Pharoah have planned a fabulous finale.

"We're now at the point where we can finally reveal some of the answers and we can't wait to hear what the fans think about it all."

Writer

Ashley Pharoah, co-creator, writer and executive producer for Monastic Productions, adds: "Gene Hunt has delighted fans for almost five years.

"Matthew and I have loved writing the adventures of Gene, Alex and the rest of the team and will be really sad to finally have to say goodbye to characters that have become a great part of our lives.”

Same format

Piers Wenger, Head of Drama, BBC Wales, says: "Series three of Ashes To Ashes will have the same combination of thrilling crime drama, outrageous Eighties outfits and cutting one-liners. "We'll be sad to see Gene and the gang go but the journey that will take us to that finale will be one of the most exciting, compelling and edge-of-your seat rides on TV!"

The creators

Ashes To Ashes is written and created by Matthew Graham and Ashley Pharoah, two creators of the award-winning Life On Mars. It is produced by Kudos Film and Television, in association with Monastic Productions and was commissioned by Jay Hunt, Controller, BBC One, and Ben Stephenson, Controller, BBC Drama Commissioning.

Executive producer duties will be split between Jane Featherstone, Simon Crawford Collins and Alison Jackson for Kudos Film and Television, Ashley Pharoah for Monastic Productions and Piers Wenger for the BBC. The producer is Howard Burch.

Ashes To Ashes, 8 x 60-minute series for transmission on BBC One in 2010.

BBC’s Ashes to Ashes starring Philip Glenister & Keeley Hawes

Follow-on series from Life on Mars

Starring Philip Glenister, Keeley Hawes,

Photograph of Philip Glenister and Keeley

Hawes in character as DI Alex Drake and

DCI Gene Hunt