Ashes To Ashes

Ashes to Ashes is a British television drama series which serves as a sequel to the 2006 series Life on Mars. It is a Kudos Film & Television production commissioned by BBC Wales,http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/03_march/26/ashes.shtml which was broadcast on BBC One. It premiered on 7 February 2008. Philip Glenister, who plays Gene Hunt, stated in an interview that the programme will run for at least two series. He added that he does not think any show featuring his character should be made afterwards. Co-creator Matthew Graham stated that the programme could potentially run to three series.Mars To Ashes: The Writers Talk Manchester Evening News 15 April 2008

The series had its American television premiere on 7 March 2009 on BBC America, an American television network, owned and operated by BBC Worldwide Americas, and available on both cable and satellite. In that broadcast, the first episode of Ashes to Ashes was preceded by the finale episode from Life on Mars. Series 2 was to begin broadcasting on BBC America on 2 May 2009, but instead has been postponed until an unspecified date.

Filming for a second series started in mid-2008, and began broadcasting in the UK, on 20 April 2009.

Ashes fires back for second series - Media Guardian, 27 March 2008 The second series is set in 1982, during the Falklands War, moving on almost six months after the events of the first series, which was set in July?October 1981. A third and final series of Ashes to Ashes has been commissioned for 2010.