Ashes to Ashes

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2008
Ashes to Ashes
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8.1 | TV-14 | en | Drama

Crime drama series featuring Life On Mars' DCI Gene Hunt. After being shot in 2008, DI Alex Drake lands in 1981, where she finds herself in familiar company.

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Released: 2008-02-07 | Released Producted By: BBC , BBC Cymru Wales Country: United Kingdom Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ashestoashes/
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Crime drama series featuring Life On Mars' DCI Gene Hunt. After being shot in 2008, DI Alex Drake lands in 1981, where she finds herself in familiar company.

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Action & Adventure

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Cast

Daniel Mays

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Beth Willis

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BBC , BBC Cymru Wales

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Keeley Hawes
Keeley Hawes

as Alex Drake

Philip Glenister
Philip Glenister

as Gene Hunt

Dean Andrews
Dean Andrews

as Ray Carling

Marshall Lancaster
Marshall Lancaster

as Chris Skelton

Beth Willis
Beth Willis

Producer

Ashes to Ashes Audience Reviews 73538

MonsterPerfect Good idea lost in the noise
CommentsXp Best movie ever!
Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.
Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
paudie I'll it to being a huge fan of this programme. I watched all three series and the two series of its predecessor "Life On Mars" and thought they were top class entertainment.Having seen "Life on Mars" (LOM) isn't a requirement to enjoying "Ashes to Ashes" but it would definitely help as many of the main characters and the time travel concept of the programme was set out in the earlier programme.At the start of Series 1 we meet present day London Detective Inspector Alex Drake, played by Keeley Hawes (sigh……). Where was I? Oh yes. She is in a coma after being shot by a suspect during a chase. She wakes up to find herself in early 1980's London. It appears she is part of the police unit headed by Gene Hunt (played by Philip Glenister). He was also head of the unit that Sam Tyler found himself in "Life on Mars" set in 1970's Manchester. She was familiar with Hunt and the other characters from LOM as she had read interviews Tyler had had after he "returned" from the 1970's.In Series 1 each episode sees the unit working on a crime while Drake tries to work out how she can get back to "real life" and her young daughter. The time she finds herself in is shortly before her parents were killed in a car bomb. She convinces herself that if she can prevent this happening in her 1980's reality she will return to present day. The two intertwining story threads as well as the brilliantly written and acted dynamics between the characters make each episode a treat . I don't think I'm giving away too much by saying that Series 2 finds Drake still in the 1980's and trying to find a way back by cracking a plot involving police corruption that Hunt seems to be involved in. This series is darker in tone that the first. She also meets character that, like her, seems to have been thrown back from present day to the 1980's.Series three was flagged as the final series and this made each episode even more tense as the characters and the viewers move towards an unknown finale. Hints and red herrings are thrown into each episode that encourages us to theorise on what will happen to our characters in the end. Carrying on the dark tone from Series 2 a major new character seems to be out to get Hunt and tries to convince Drake that Hunt has a murky past. I won't say much more except that I thought the ending was brilliant.There are plenty of comic moments throughout all the series. A lot come from the conflict between Drake's 2000's policing style (her speciality is criminal profiling) and Hunts more direct methods. This is similar to the conflict between Tyler and Hunt in LOM. I found this conflict repetitive after a few episodes in the earlier programme but perhaps because of the romantic frisson between Drake and Hunt, it seemed more believable to me.Gene Hunt's politically incorrect one-liners have launched a thousand tee shirts and are among the show's highlights. The ing cast must also get a mention. Marshall Lancaster, Dean Andrews and Montserrat Lombard are brilliant and we come love their characters as much as Drake and Hunt.The 80's popular culture references, clothes and especially the music are all spot on.So if you have never seen Ashes to Ashes I really envy you as you have a treat ahead of you. Get the box set, close the curtains, put on your leg warmers, throw your Best of Roxy Music on the CD player and have a great 80's weekend.
Suki_Weeks I loved Life On Mars and was just annoyed they bothered with ATA, they take the brilliant character that is Gene Hunt and instead of the great central character like Sam Tyler, we've got a posh and very dull Alex Drake. Is she dead? Is she alive? I really don't give a damn. Keeley Hawes acting is dreadful and at no point do I care or even want to see this character develop. I was hoping Gene would get as fed up as me and just shoot her.They've turned a initially great show into a woman-out-to-prove-herself tosh. Hunt and Drake have no chemistry and the only bits I like was when Drake was out of the way. Gene Hunt is a shadow of his former self-dragged out over 3 seasons and Drake made me want it to end it as soon as it started.Watch Life On Mars again, don't bother with this.
Audax67 On seeing series 1:Crude, puerile, facile, over-acted... was it done this way on purpose, and if so what are they making fun of - the poor wights that stay glued? John Sim reportedly thought "Life on Mars" was a stupid idea, this one is an even more stupid retread with lousy acting (or is it direction?) thrown in.The Audi coupé is about the best thing in it. Lovely cars, they were. For the rest of it, the criminals are obvious, the cops bumble about, the floozy who talks phunny (Alex Whatever) is ludicrous. The guy who popped her one at the beginning should have used a dumdum.Yet funnily enough, it's quite enjoyable in its lobotomized way...Several months later:Changed my rating from 2 to 7. Why? Someone else in the family bought series 2 and 3. The way they tied it off explains why everything is crude, puerile and over-acted. Cunning devils...
Victoria Fletcher So i wonder that if as a girl I was predisposed to like Ashes to Ashes more than Life on Mars. I will grant that the original, is just that, the original, and so in a way it's the better. More original, more groundbreaking. But personally I love Ashes to Ashes more. Keeley Hawes took an episode or two to really gel with what was going on, but I think it really works now, and I feel for the character. She's trying to get back to her little girl, you know she can't just stay in the past... and to also try and save her parents. It's interesting, I want to know what's going to happen. And then there's Philip Glenister, who is always a good actor, but whose role as DCI Gene Hunt is a role he'll FOREVER be known as... and good reason. He's a man's man, funny, gritty, and in this series, occasionally vulnerable. Some don't like the way he is in this show, but I think it works. And the chemistry between Hunt and Drake really works, and it's interesting. I adore them. Finally maybe I like this because I love 80s music, and if you like that, this is a great series for you. It has a great soundtrack. Add that with the awesome quattro Hunt drives, and some fantastic cheesy, over the top moments (the boat showdown in episode 2 anyone?) and it's a show I find absolutely the best pure entertainment I've seen in years. Now all I need is for LoM to get released to DVD over here, and for this sequel to hit our shores so I can then get THAT on DVD and I'll be happy.

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