Ashes to Ashes Returns to BBC One

LONDON, March 28: BBC One
has renewed the drama Ashes to Ashes for a second season, set to air in 2009.

From Kudos Film and
Television, in association with Monastic Productions, Ashes to Ashes was a strong performer in its first season for BBC
One, averaging more than 6.5 million viewers.

Filming is set to begin
this summer, but details for the new season are being kept under wraps until
the current season has finished airing. Ashes to Ashes is written and created by Matthew Graham and
Ashley Pharoah, the creators of Life on Mars. Executive producer duties will be split between
Graham and Pharoah for Monastic Productions, Crawford Collins and Jane
Featherstone for Kudos and Piers Wenger for the BBC.

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski