Just watched the first episode of Ashes to Ashes. Fun, in a slightly different way to Life on Mars and not sure whether it’s quite as good.
The fact that it doesn’t just replicate the previous serious but is taking the climax of that as a starting point is refreshing; it means that this time around the historical inaccuracies can be more openly incorporated into the storyline and played with. This may nominally be 1981 but it’s really an amalgam of all of Alex’s memories, accurate or otherwise, of the 1980s in general. For example, whilst I wouldn’t rule out the yuppie banker drug dealer he does seem to belong to a slightly later part of the decade, and more concretely - all those posters for Prince Charming? It was released six months after this episode was set.
And Gene Hunt is back. 
contemplative