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Final Ashes to Ashes to answer mysteries
Season three of Ashes To Ashes hits UK screens soon with Philip Glenister and Keeley Hawes reprising their roles as DCI Gene Hunt and DI Alex Drake.
The 8-episode third season remains rooted in the 1980s.
The final season also includes Dean Andrews as DI Ray Carling, Marshall Lancaster as DC Chris Skelton and Montserrat Lombard as WPC Sharon ‘Shaz’ Granger. Daniel Mays (The Street, Plus One) joins the series as Discipline and Complaints officer, Jim Keats, in what promises to be an unsettling twist to the team dynamic.
The series will also answer …
Occupation
As anyone who has seen James Nesbitt’s work knows, he is a force to be reckoned with. In Jekyll, Cold Feet and Murphy’s Law he dominated the screen. It isn’t just because of his thick Irish accent, it is the absolute conviction he brings to his characters.
So it is with Seargant Mike Swift, a soldier on the ground in Iraq during the 2003 invasion of Basra.
American television has visited the subject of the war in dramas such as Steven Bochco’s Over There and David Simon / Ed Burns’ Generation Kill.
Now the …
New UK sci-fi from Spooks writer
Amended: The BBC recently announced a new sci-fi drama from Ben Richards, writer of Spooks, The Fixer and Party Animals.
According to the BBC, “Outcasts is set on a recently-discovered planet and tells of the dilemmas, loves and lives of a group of people setting up a new world.
“This life-sustaining planet is now home to the surviving population from Earth. Here there is a chance to start again, to bring the lessons learnt from Earth and to put them into action on a new planet.
“Set in 2040, Outcasts begins on the day …
Airdate: Doctor Who: The End of Time
EXCLUSIVE: TV Tonight can finally reveal the Australian airdates for Doctor Who: The End of Time Parts 1 & 2.
Part 1 will screen at 7:30pm Sunday February 14 on ABC1.
Part 2 will follow a week later 7:30pm Sunday February 21 on ABC1.
The two part adventure brings to an end the reign of David Tennant as The Doctor and introduces Matt Smith, briefly, in the second part. The episodes aired in the UK on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day, topping 10.4m viewers for Tennant’s exit.
Tennant is widely viewed by many, including …
March 09: Sound Relief, Home & Away’s ‘gay kiss’, Freeview parody, ONE HD
March:
‘Norman Gentle’ challenges American Idol
AFL plan to push players to media
Axed: Life on Mars
Feud shadows Naylor funeral
TEN cutting staff hours
Mariska Hargitay hospitalised
SBS moves Sydney & Melbourne sales in-house
ITV axes shows, cuts staff
Monkee Peter Tork has cancer
Coleby quits Home and Away
Seinfeld cast re-group for Curb
Music channels sing for Sound Relief
Scrubs set for prime time
TEN orders new 7pm show from Roving Enterprises
Freeview parody pulled from YouTube
Axed: The All in Call
Community TV rallies for Logie invite
Critics knife US Chopping Block
Battlestar Galactica at the UN
Humphrey gets …
Demons
Britain sure has ramped up its fantasy stories lately.
The revival of Doctor Who has reverberated throughout the industry with hit shows including Primeval, Merlin, Torchwood, Being Human and several more. It’s not exactly new so much as a vote of confidence. Most of the time we’ve reaped the rewards of their spacemen, monsters, ghouls and dinosaurs.
Not so in Demons.
This one really should have succeeded. ITV’s supernatural series has quite a pedigree including Merlin’s Johnny Capps and Julian Murphy as creators. In a central role is the esteemed Philip Glenister (Life on …
The cancelled list
As the US Fall Season nears it’s time to take stock of the shows in the US that are not moving forward (including two Aussie adaptations).
Whilst many of us are up to speed on most of these, sometimes one or two escape out attention, and others kinda never get cancelled but remain in permanent hiatus.
For the record here is the list of those that are no more:
ABC has cancelled Cupid, Dirty Sexy Money, Eli Stone, In the Motherhood, Kyle XY, Life on Mars, Pushing Daisies, Samantha Who, Surviving Suburbia, and The …
Ashes to Ashes to end with third series
EXCLUSIVE: Ashes to Ashes, the spin-off from Life on Mars, will end with the third series.
As the first series premieres in Australia, co-writer Ashley Pharoah talks to TV Tonight about both dramas, new US projects and what he thought of the US adaptation of Life on Mars.
“I almost really, really liked it,” he says. “I thought they did some stuff incredibly well. I wan’t involved with it, but they were very generous and invited me over to Manhattan for the read through. I got to have dinner with Harvey Keitel and …
Airdate: Ashes to Ashes
The sequel to Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes, is finally coming to ABC1.
Philip Glenister returns as DCI Gene Hunt but this time he is in the 1980s, flanked by his sidekicks DS Ray Carling (Dean Andrews) and DC Chris Skelton (Marshall Lancaster).
This time he is joined by DCI Alex Drake (Keeley Hawes from Spooks) who finds herself in 1981. But thankfully she had been studying detailed reports logged by Mars’ Sam Tyler.
Based on another David Bowie song, this series has dragged everything into the Eighties, including swapping the Ford Cortina …
Returning: Numb3rs, Rules of Engagement, Criminal Intent
So many changes coming to TEN programming it is quite a refresh of its weeknight guide.
Sun May 3
6:30pm Merlin
7:30pm Masterchef Australia
9:00pm Movie: Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan
10:45pm The Office
Mon May 4
7:00pm MasterChef Australia
8:00pm Recruits premiere
8:30pm Good News Week
9:30pm Supernatural series return
Tue May 5
7:00pm MasterChef Australia
7:30pm Talkin Bout Your Generation premiere
8:30pm NCIS
9:30pm Lie to Me
Wed May 6
7:00pm MasterChef Australia
8:00pm All New Simpsons
8:30pm House
9:30pm Numb3rs premiere
Thu May 7
7:00pm MasterChef Australia
7:30pm Rules of Engagement series return
8:00pm Bondi Vet finale
8:30pm Law & Order Criminal Intent series return
9:30pm Medium
Fri …
TEN’s Easter programming
TEN’s programming for the first week on non-ratings (April 5th) includes several big name shows that will continue with new episodes.
Continuing: The Biggest Loser, So You Think You Can Dance Australia, Rove, Dexter (1 ep), Neighbours, Bondi Rescue, Guerrilla Gardeners, House, Life, Bondi Vet, Life on Mars, Before the Game, AFL.
Repeats: NCIS, Law & Order: SVU, The Simpsons, Medium, Law and Order,
Special: Good News Week “Best of 2008″.
Who companions to farewell Tennant
Minor spoilers: Three of Doctor’s Who’s most recent companions will return for the final episode by David Tennant.
Billie Piper, Freema Agyeman and Catherine Tate will all help to send off Tennant in his final appearance as the Time Lord.
The three will join forces to take on the Doctor’s revived arch-enemy The Master, played again by John Simm (Life on Mars).
An insider said: “This will be the most exciting episode Doctor Who have ever done. We really wanted to get all the companions back on board as a fitting send-off to David.
“And …