Ashes to Ashes (TV series)
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Ashes to Ashes title sequence
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| Genre |
Time travel Police procedural |
| Created by |
Matthew Graham Ashley Pharoah |
| Starring |
Philip Glenister Keeley Hawes Dean Andrews Marshall Lancaster Montserrat Lombard Daniel Mays |
| Composer(s) | Edmund Butt |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of series | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 24 (list of episodes) |
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| Producer(s) | Kudos Film and Television for BBC Wales with Monastic Productions |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
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| Original network |
BBC One (2008–2010) BBC HD (2010) |
| Picture format |
PAL 576i (2008–2009) 1080i (2010) |
| Original release | 7 February 2008 – 21 May 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Life on Mars |
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| Released | 17 March 2008 | |||
| Genre | Pop rock | |||
| Label | Sony BMG | |||
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| Released | 20 April 2009 | |||
| Genre | Pop rock | |||
| Label | Sony Music | |||
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| Released | 12 April 2010 | |||
| Genre | Pop rock | |||
| Label | Sony Music | |||
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Ashes to Ashes is a British science fiction and police procedural drama television series, serving as the sequel to Life on Mars.
The series began airing on BBC One in February 2008. A second series began broadcasting in April 2009. A third and final series was broadcast from 2 April to 21 May 2010 on BBC One and BBC HD.
Throughout the first series, Ashes to Ashes was broadcast weekly on Thursdays on BBC One at 9:00 pm, with the episodes directed by Jonny Campbell, Bille Eltringham and Catherine Morshead. Filming for the second series began in 2008, and began airing on 20 April 2009 in the same timeslot. The second series takes place six months after the first, set in 1982 during the Falklands War. They were shot on Super 16 film and mastered in 576p standard definition.
A third and final series was commissioned, and filming of the final eight 60-minute episodes began in late 2009, premiering on 2 April 2010. This final series was shot in Super 16 again but telecined and mastered for high definition. In an interview with SFX, series co-creator and executive producer Matthew Graham stated that he was considering making a 3D episode. Once again, the series moved on a year, this time to 1983. Philip Glenister, speaking on the BBC One Breakfast TV programme on 8 June 2009, announced that the third series would be the last. Producers revealed the climax of the show would reveal who the character of Gene Hunt really is. The third series concluded on 21 May 2010.
As with the parent series, there are anachronisms. At least one is known to the cast and crew: the Audi Quattro was not available in right-hand drive in the United Kingdom in 1981, only in left-hand drive. The car shown in the TV series is the 1983 model, with slight changes to the headlights and other features. Philip Glenister admitted that the production was aware of this and said, "But who cares? It's a cool car." A number of songs used in the series were also out of time, such as Japan's "Ghosts" in series one, Duran Duran's "Is There Something I Should Know? in series two, and "Two Tribes" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood and "Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves in series three (although the latter was originally released in 1983, the version played was from 1985). Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl" was released in 1983, but it features prominently in episode 3.2, set four months before the release; similarly, Ray Carling says in episode 1.2 that Bobby Moore "was in that movie, Escape to Victory", which was not released until a fortnight after the episode was set. News events of the three depicted years are used as backdrops to the stories: the 29 July 1981 royal wedding, the 1981 start of the London Docklands Development Corporation's work and Lord Scarman's contemporaneous enquiry, the April 1982 liberation of the Falkland Islands, the 9 June 1983 general election, the 21 November 1983 damage to the Blue Peter Garden, and (in flashback), the 2 June 1953 coronation of the Queen.
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