Ashes to Ashes

Licensor: Kudos Film & Television
Channel: BBC One
Type: Drama series
Target Market: All adults

‘'Ashes to Ashes’ is the follow-up to the huge BBC police drama hit, ‘Life On Mars’ which followed the adventures of Sam Tyler, an ambitious police detective from 2006 who is transported back in time to 1973 to work with a team led by DCI Gene Hunt, an "overweight, over-the-hill, nicotine-stained, borderline alcoholic homophobe with a superiority complex and an unhealthy obsession with male bonding."

In ‘Ashes to Ashes’ Gene Hunt moves from Manchester to London and time moves forward to 1981. Everyone’s favourite politically-incorrect cop turns his attentions to taking on the ‘southern nancy’ criminal scum in the nation’s capital. Gene, however, does not expect to be thrown together with the sexy, intelligent, DCI Alex Drake. When Alex and her daughter are kidnapped, she makes a daring attempt at escape, resulting in a horrific accident. Alex suddenly finds herself in 1981 interacting with familiar characters, not just from her own life time, but also from the detailed reports logged by none other than Sam Tyler, which Alex has previously spent months poring over.

Series two of 'Ashes to Ashes' will be broadcast on BBC One in spring 2009.

The 'DCI Gene Hunt' character and the 'Ashes to Ashes' property are both available for licensing.

Ashes to Ashes/ DCI Gene Hunt licenced products include :

• DVDs (Contender)
• Soundtrack (SonyBMG)
• Book - 'The Rules of Modern Policing' (Transworld)
• Book - 'The Future of Modern Policing' (Transworld)
• Calendar & Greetings Cards (Danilo)
• Trivia Game (Susan Prescot Games)
• T-shirts (Push Entertainment)

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Email: Claire Potter