Ashes to Ashes on BBC America

POSTED BY: Geezer
UPDATED: Saturday, April 4, 2009 02:05
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GEEZER

Monday, March 23, 2009 12:35 PM

Anyone watching this? It's a follow-on to Life on Mars, with Keeley Hawes playing present-day DI Alex Drake, who's transported by a shooting back to 1981 to work with The Guv - Gene Hunt - and his band of detectives. Eight years from "Mars", its Audi Quattro instead of Capri, Glam rock, and heavy eye-shadow on the birds.

Alex knows about Sam Tyler's previous trip back to 1973, so she's convinced it's all in her head. She trys to ratonalize events as tricks her sub-conscious is playing on her, and has a habit of putting the other detective's names in little air-quotes, since they're just figments.

Runs Saturday night with a re-run of the previous week's episode at 8:00 EST and a new episode at 9:00.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/ashestoashes/

"Keep the Shiny side up"

MSA

Monday, March 23, 2009 5:03 PM

Haven't seen anything but the pilot and I'm still trying to decide if I like it.. I think I'll watch another episode before I decide. It's a bit surreal.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

WAKEUPSOON

Monday, March 23, 2009 7:22 PM

When it was on in England, I didn't think it was as good as Life on Mars.
But I'm notoriously bad at following stuff on TV .. so was merely a casual viewer for both.

~WuS

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ECGORDON

Monday, March 23, 2009 11:28 PM

I still haven't seen all of the original Life on Mars, but I have been saving Ashes to my dvr for viewing later.

IMNOTHERE

Friday, April 3, 2009 9:07 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Geezer:
Anyone watching this? It's a follow-on to Life on Mars

Having just read in another thread how "Life on Mars (USA)" finishes its probably worth pointing out that "Ashes to Ashes" will make absolutely no sense whatsoever unless you've seen the original UK version of "Life On Mars" - the ending of which sets up "Ashes To Ashes" and is very, very different!

In any case, although Life on Mars (UK) was brilliant, "Ashes to Ashes" didn't really float my boat.

SIMONWHO

Saturday, April 4, 2009 12:06 AM

Ashes to Ashes picked up as it went along - the finale of the first series was as good as anything in Life on Mars. The second series starts in the UK later this month and you can see the trailer here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ashestoashes/

KWICKO

Saturday, April 4, 2009 2:05 AM

Is Keely Hawes the girl from MI-5? I think it was called "Spooks" in the UK, but in the States we get it as MI-5.

Loved that show. What happened to it? It's hard to find on TV here, and I kind of lost track after Matthew McFayden left. I didn't really take to his replacement very well, then it just kind of disappeared from Bravo's schedule.

I do see that PBS is running it late on Fridays now, but they're the older eps. Tonight's was the "Spiders" episode.

I've been DVRing Ashes to Ashes, but haven't really had time to watch.

And yes, I still need to track down the UK version of Life On Mars; I'm almost positive it will be better than the US version!

Mike

Just lying smiling in the dark,
Shooting stars around your heart,
Dreams come bouncing in your head
pure and simple every time.
Now you're crying in your sleep;
I wish you'd never learnt to weep.
Don't sell the dreams you should be keeping
pure and simple every time.
"Pure", by Lightning Seeds