Ashley Pharoah: Last News

Life on Mars was one of the UK’s most popular dramas when it aired a decade and a half ago, and its many fans were geared up for the highly anticipated revival show Lazarus. 

Lazarus, the planned sequel series to Life On Mars, has been scrapped, its creators have confirmed “with a heavy heart”.The sequel was confirmed last year and was set to see screenwriter and creator Matthew Graham reunite with writer Ashley Pharoah on the script for the follow-up show.Taking to Twitter, Graham and Pharoah revealed that the show will now not be moving forwards, due to “hurdles” that were “financial not creative”.Graham wrote, via his production company Watford & Essex: “Some sad news folks. After many months of planning, we will now not be making Lazarus.“I can’t go into details but the hurdles were financial not creative. Naturally all who were involved are sick as a jungle full of parrots.

Life on Mars have confirmed a follow-up series is on the way.Screenwriter and creator Matthew Graham confirmed the news on social media via the account of his production company, saying he and collaborator Ashley Pharoah had finished the script for a pilot for the sequel called Lazarus.“So Ashley Pharoah and I have completed the pilot script for Lazarus. It contains the words – Hanging, Boogie, Creme Fraiche,” the tweet reads.So @AJPharoah and I have completed the pilot script for #Lazarus.

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Around the World in 80 Days, the upcoming series adaptation of Jules Verne’s novel starring David Tennant, will be returning for a second season.

K.J. Yossman David Tenant’s upcoming series “Around the World in 80 Days” hasn’t yet hit screens but producers are so confident in the show they’ve already greenlit a second season, with Ashley Pharoah (“Life on Mars”) returning as showrunner.

Want all the hottest soap gossip? Share your email to get news, interviews, spoilers and more from the Daily StarTime travelling crime drama Life on Mars, written by Ashley Pharoah and Matthew Graham, was broadcast on BBC One between 2006-2007.The show starred John Simm as Detective Chief Inspector Sam Tyler, who after an accident, finds himself back in time in 1973.In seventies Manchester, Simm is now a Detective Inspector under Philip Glenister's DCI Gene Hunt, and while solving crimes with his new team, tries to find his way back to 2006.The popular series launched a spin-off, Ashes to Ashes, featuring Keeley Hawes who finds herself lost in eighties London alongside some of the characters from Life on Mars.Over 15 years later, we look at

Emmerdale star Dean Andrews, who plays Will Taylor on the ITV soap, has revealed he will have to "beg" the show's bosses to let him return to the new series of Life On Mars.