We’re back to last Thursday’s Bonekickers event now. Writers Ashley Pharoah and Matthew Graham have done quite a job in a) coming up with Life On Mars, b) coming up with Ashes To Ashes, and now c) coming up with Bonekickers. Life On Mars, obviously, is very close to our hearts and rightly goes down as a TV classic, while Ashes To Ashes, well, hmmm. It was good wasn’t it, but nowhere near as good as its predecessor. It’s still a conversation starter though, and people still want to know all about it, as the Bonekickers event proved. After the screening, there was a Q&A with Mr Pharaoh, and, inevitably, the subject of Ashes To Ashes series two popped up, have a look after the jump to see what he said, it’s quite interesting.

For the record I thought Ashes To Ashes was pretty good. In places it was brilliant, but compared to Life On Mars it was merely good. Compared to most other dramas on TV elsewhere, it was terrific. I didn’t have a problem with Keeley Hawes either. I thought it relied too much on the music, looked too much like a music video and Gene Hunt hadn’t developed as nicely as he could have done.

Anyway, people are still gagging for ATA news, so this is what Pharaoh said about series two:

“We’ve just handed in episode one. It’s set in 1982, so the Falklands have just happened. We’re taking it slightly darker this time, now the characters have been established. The first episode is about a murder in a strip club in Soho, and there’s a lot of the 80s left and it’s a good excuse to get the music off iTunes. I’d like to do another series after this one too; Matthew and I have a big story we want to tell when the whole thing ends.”