A year ago I fell for the BBC show Life on Mars and was disheartened when it ended. Then I heard that a sequel was being made - Ashes to Ashes, which has some of the same characters and transports them to 1981.
Gene turns his attentions to taking on the "southern nancy" criminal scum and flanked by his faithful sidekicks DS Ray Carling and DC Chris Skelton, he transfers down South to the London Met.
But Gene gets a surprise when he is thrown together with a sexy, ambitious and intelligent officer in the shape of single mother DI Alex Drake.
Alex has risen rapidly through the ranks of the Met and in the modern world of 2008 is renowned for using her skills as a psychological profiler to capture suspects.
But Alex is ripped from her current world of equality and respect when she and her daughter are kidnapped. She is shot while making a bid for freedom and wakes up in a brothel in 1981, surrounded by men who look like something out of Miami Vice and is confused, to say the least.
I had neglected to pay attention and found out last week that the show is on the air. Thanks to torrents, I quickly acquired a copy of episode 1. Methinks The Dulcinea is looking forward to watching it as well because she has the hots for Ray.
This fall was a real bummer with no good TV on. Last month I got Lost and Torchwood and now I have the Gene Genie. Life is good.
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