Return to Mars

I’ve got this idea for the poster,” says Matthew Graham, co-creator of Life On Mars and Ashes To Ashes. “It’d just be this massive wall of cardboard boxes, with the Cortina and the Quattro side by side, both smashing through the boxes at the same time!”

Are we mad, in a coma or back in time? None of the above. Graham really is plotting the return of Gene Hunt, mashing the worlds of Mars and Ashes together in a brand new, Brut-splashed bastard of a series. ’Oops are most definitely back on the menu.

“We decided to tell people on Twitter when we were doing these tweet-a longs,” he tells , perfectly willing to grass himself up. “We haven’t even gone to the BBC yet. I think we’ve caught them out slightly – I think some journalists phoned them up and said, ‘When are you making the new ?’ and they went, ‘What? Did we miss a meeting?’” he laughs. “Hopefully they’ll like what we bring them. I really hope we get the chance to do