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Axed: Foyle’s War

After 13 years, it's finally the end for Michael Kitchen as Christopher Foyle.

2015-01-17_2359UK wartime drama Foyle’s War will end with a final episode to air in the UK this week.

ITV, Eleventh Hour Films and Acorn Productions confirmed the end of the drama, starring Michael Kitchen, due to the high costs of production and its intention to air original drama commissions.

Writer and creater, Anthony Horowitz said: “It feels a terrible wrench to say goodbye to characters I’ve lived with for more than fifteen years. But the truth is that I’m not sure there are any more stories to tell and anyway it was always my intention to end on a high note and I think this year’s episodes are the very best we’ve done.

“I’m proud of what we’ve achieved with Foyle’s War and I’m very grateful to the audience that has stayed with us for so long. I’ve had a good war.”

Jill Green, Executive Producer Eleventh Hour Films said: “We have made twenty-eight successful feature length films-a huge body of work-with the quality rising every year. So it is good to be closing on a high, and having the time to now offer our loyal audiences new dramas.

“Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle Weeks and several crew have been with us for every episode across a fourteen year period….so particular thanks again to them.”

ITV’s Director of Drama Steve November said: “We are very sad to be saying goodbye to Foyle’s War after so many amazing years, but delighted that the finale is so rich and mesmerising. Christopher Foyle has been a classic ITV hero and we are indebted to Anthony Horowitz for creating him and writing so many original stories for him, to Michael Kitchen for bringing him to life so brilliantly and to Eleventh Hour Films for consistently impeccable production.”

Michael Kitchen has played, the enigmatic, Christopher Foyle since 2002.

7 Responses

  1. Series 1 to 5 were a great show that was axed. In it’s wake came another very good show which is Series 6 to 8. We can only hope that this second show will be extended at some point in the near future.

  2. It won’t be first on Foxtel as its not a BBC drama so it will likely premiere on ABC. If they have 28 eps over 14 years that’s only 2 a year. You wouldn’t think that would break the bank in terms of high cost for ITV

  3. The production team did a great job in finding locations and props from the 40’s. Kitchen made the role his own and he looked like he enjoyed every minute. Interesting stories with about the right mix of soap and detection. The ABC one’s have a permanent spot on my PVR. The final series, presumably, first on Foxtel then our ABC or Nine or Seven or Netflix.

    Anthony Horowitz is a prolific writer and his wife, Jill Green, produces Foyle. Being presented with a human skull on my 13th birthday would have given me the horrors, not so Anthony! (Wikipedia)

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