Ashes To Ashes star Keeley Hawes has revealed that her co-star Philip Glenister saved the day during filming for the new series after the brakes failed on the infamous Quattro.
The actress who plays DI Alex Drake, told The Sun: “We were all in the car and heading towards the end of the road, in the rain, when suddenly the brakes wouldn’t work.”
Keeley added: “It was a hairy moment but Phil is a very good driver and managed to stop the car. So we are all still here — thank God.”
The Quattro’s fired up and fashion sense has been thrown out of the window as the second series of hit BBC One drama Ashes To Ashes returns!
Winner of the Best New Drama category at the 2008 TV Quick Awards, series one of Ashes To Ashes cemented its position as one of the TV highlights of 2008 after more than eight million viewers tuned in to see DI Alex Drake (Keeley Hawes) arrive with a bang in 1981.
Ashes to Ashes actor, Philip Glenister has revealed that he has no idea why his character, Gene Hunt has proved so popular with the public.
Hunt started off in BBC hit drama Life On Mars then appeared in his own spinoff show Ashes To Ashes last year.
“Hunt was originally meant to be this nasty dinosaur of an old cop,” Glenister told the Daily Mail. “But, as soon as we shot the scene where he walked in and said, ‘Don’t ever walk into my kingdom, acting king of the jungle, cos you’re wasting my time’, the film crew all just fell about laughing.
The Quattro’s fired up and fashion sense has been thrown out of the window as filming begins on the second series of hit BBC One drama Ashes To Ashes.
Winner of the Best New Drama category at the recent TV Quick Awards, series one of Ashes To Ashes cemented its position as one of the TV highlights of 2008 after over eight million viewers tuned in to see DI Alex Drake (Keeley Hawes) arrive with a bang in 1981.
Series two kicks off in 1982 where leg warmers are cool, fluorescent is the colour of choice, Thatcher is in her element and bullish DCI Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister) is back, policing the streets in his politically incorrect and loud-mouthed style.
Ashes To Ashes actress, Keeley Hawes has revealed that she would like things to get more steamy between her character Alex Drake and police officer, Gene Hunt in series two of the show.
MSN quote Keeley as saying:
“I’d like to see Gene and Alex get together just to shut people up so they stop asking me about it! But I don’t know if that would be a good thing, just to get it out the way and move on or leave it hanging,”
The Eighties revival continues – the hugely popular Ashes To Ashes will return for a second series on BBC One.
The hit drama, made by Kudos Film and Television in association with Monastic Productions, has been recommissioned by the BBC following strong ratings and fantastic feedback from its army of fans.
Series one has averaged well over 6.5 million viewers so far and the opening episode achieved audience figures of more than eight million.
Details of the new series are being kept under wraps until the current series has ended but Simon Crawford-Collins, Executive Producer and Head of Drama at Kudos, promises there will be more fun for fans of the “Gene Genie”. Read more & comment »
In the final episode of Ashes To Ashes, Alex is 24 hours from the event that changed her life – the murder of her parents in a car bomb – as the crime drama concludes. She believes that if she can save her parents, she’ll get home to her daughter in 2008. Her childhood memories of the day are vague, so, armed with that information, she makes her parents’ death into a “case” – a crime that hasn’t happened.
Ray is horrified that Alex chooses him to help her with her crazy mission. She destroys the blue Ford she thinks was the car her parents died in and starts to believe she’s in control of her destiny, although Ray thinks she’s finally lost it.
Meanwhile, Gene is in hell; Lord Scarman is due to visit the station. Gene will stop at nothing to give a good impression, right down to releasing all the prisoners and locking up Chris so that he can give the station a good review.
You just gotta love the writers at Ashes To Ashes on BBC1. In the scene below the cast manage to squeeze in the names of most of the big 90’s boybands, in other words most of my CD collection!
What makes it even funnier is the deadpan face with which Gene Hunt delivers all his one liners. Is it wrong to fancy a man who is so aesthetically unpleasing?
The album includes hit such as Fade To Grey by Visage, Geno by Dexy’s Midnight Runners and Let’s Stick Together by Bryan Ferry, as well as the shows title music and an introduction by Alex Drake.
Ashes To Ashes actress, Keeley Hawes has revealed to Grazia magazine that when she was on set filming for the BBC hit drama, the whole family got involved.
Her husband Matthew Macfadyen ended up with a role in the show and her three children often came to watch her act.
Keeley said: “Matthew watched episode one and just said ‘I’d love to be in this!’ He plays a Brummie guy with a mullet – such a good look. And he has OCD. His character sits in a bath of baked beans for a year to raise money for children in Botswana. Then someone steals the money.” Read more & comment »
Tonight (29 February) on BBC One’s Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, Ashes To Ashes actress Keeley Hawes says Gene Hunt is a sex symbol.
“He’s a sexy guy, I really like men of that period.”
She prefers working with men: “It’s very blokey … when you get a lot of men like that in one room it gets a bit smelly.”
And she would like to play another gay role: “I love a lesbian drama … sex with women is very different, you don’t have to worry about stubble rash, it’s softer, a different smell.”
Also on tonight’s show, healthy eating guru Gillian McKeith examines Jonathan’s health. Read more & comment »
February 28th, 2008 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Ashes-To-Ashes
When a dead body is discovered at a warehouse, DCI Gene Hunt is quick to dismiss the death of Martin Kennedy as suicide, as Ashes To Ashes continues. However, with signs of a struggle and a massive blow to the head, the CID team find themselves involved in a murder investigation.
Feisty DI Alex Drake soon uncovers an intriguing piece of evidence: a piece of paper with a code. Leaving Custody Sergeant Viv with the task of solving the puzzle, Gene and the rest of the team head out to do the “real work”.
The investigation leads the team to a feminist socialist group, the Revolutionary Workers Front (RWF). It’s not long before Gene has every woman involved in the group carted down to the station. Chris, meanwhile, tries to impress Shaz with his new-found feminist knowledge and Ray is off on a date with a blonde communist. Read more & comment »
February 28th, 2008 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Ashes-To-Ashes
Marshall Lancaster plays the over-cautious DC Chris Skelton in Ashes To Ashes, the crime drama set in London circa 1981. He’s a bit of a geek at heart and loves the advancing technology of the Eighties, but he also likes to play the tough guy whenever he can, although always in the shadow of DCI Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister) and DS Ray Carling (Dean Andrews).
Chris still likes to think of himself as one of the boys, but he has a love interest in the form of WPC “Shaz” Granger (Montserrat Lombard) and he knows that she won’t stand for the boys’ sexist, backward opinions. So, he often changes his tune when she’s around, much to Ray’s disgust. Marshall talks to Programme Information about practical jokes, skinny jeans and Chris falling in love…
How does Chris fit into the CID team?
Chris is a natural dogsbody, eager to please and loyal to Gene Hunt. It is only the arrival of DI Drake (Keeley Hawes) that upsets the “normal” running of CID. Chris is eager to learn, but avoids work when possible. He enjoys practical jokes and is easily led.
What’s his relationship with Shaz like?
I think Chris has an interesting relationship with Shaz as I think she genuinely loves Chris; he becomes her hero after rescuing her in episode one. Shaz is a “modern” Eighties woman, however, and won’t stand for any sexism or homophobic comments and makes Chris suffer accordingly. Read more & comment »
Ashes To Ashes actor Philip Glenister has admitted that he loves to swear and finds being foul mouthed highly addictive.
Philip told The Radio Times:
“I love swearing. I find swearing highly addictive.”
Glenister then described a conversation that he and his six year old daughter had on a recent morning. He said: “I know you don’t want to get up, I don’t want to go to f***ing work’.
“She replied ‘I know, daddy. I don’t want to go to f***ing school’. She timed it beautifully, though.” Read more & comment »
later this month.
looks better myself!
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