Ashes to Ashes

About Ashes to Ashes

Crime drama series featuring Life On Mars' DCI Gene Hunt. After being shot in 2008, DI Alex Drake lands in 1981, where she finds herself in familiar company.

Ashes to Ashes is an action-adventure, crime, and science fiction series made for BBC One. Keeley Hawes leads the cast as Alex Drake, Philip Glenister as Gene Hunt, Dean Andrews as Ray Carling, and Marshall Lancaster as Chris Skelton.

It ran for 3 seasons and 24 episodes between February 2008 and May 2010. That is around 8 episodes a season.

Shelv files it under female detective, police, time travel, and police detective. It streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and BritBox in the United States. It scores 7.7 out of 10 from 122 TMDB voters and it carries a TV-14 rating.

Motive, Luther, and The Killing make useful companions to Ashes to Ashes, all filed under female protagonist.