Life on Mars

Business Diary: DCI Hunt's collar felt over 'sexist' M&S ads

source: Independent

Business Diary: DCI Hunt's collar felt over 'sexist' M&S ads It seems the humour police are hot on the trail of M&S and DCI Gene Hunt (aka Philip Glenister, of Ashes to Ashes and Life on Mars fame). ... GENE HUNT MAKES SEXIST COMMENT AT MARKS AND SPENCER TV ADDaily Star

Published Thu, Nov 19

Life on Mars star's turn in Marks & Spencer ad attacked over 'sexism'

source: Guardian Unlimited

ASA considering investigation after Philip Glenister's Gene Hunt-esque role in advert attracts complaints Link to this video In the A 10m ad campaign, which broke last week, Glenister is seen propping up the bar at the end of the ad, after a series of scenes that feature celebrities, inc...

Published Wed, Nov 18

Life On Mars

source: NPR

Gemma Watters, Production Assistant . This week, on Weekend Edition Saturday, you can hear a highly entertaining conversation with Host Scott Simon and British actor Philip Glenister about his role as Detective Gene Hunt on the hit television show Life on Mars - the UK version.

Published Fri, Nov 6

Ashes To Ashes: Daniel Mays

source: blogs.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Will Alex finally discover why she’s been sent back to the 80s? Does anything tie Alex and Sam Tyler together? And who exactly is Gene Hunt…? Jane Featherstone, Executive Producer, Kudos Film and Television says: Life On Mars Blogs

Published Wed, Sep 23

The best of Spanish Gene Hunt

source: Jack Yan on Vox

Remember how fans of Life on Mars were putting together their favourite Gene Genie moments on to YouTube? The Spanish seem equally fond of their Gene Hunt, Inspector Jefe Quin Gallardo, in La chica de ayer, Spanish Life on Mars.

Published Tue, Aug 18

TV highlights, May 30th

source: The Age

 Australia If Barnaby's too genteel for the big city bring in Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister) and his team of 1970s chain-smoking detectives to shake up Sun Hill - why should Life on Mars have all the fun? If that doesn't work, the producers could really jump the ...

Published Thu, May 28

George Gently v Gene Hunt: who would win in a fight?

source: EducationGuardian.co.uk

 UK Inspector George Gently features Martin Shaw as an anachronistically right-on copper up North in 1964, while Ashes To Ashes has Gene Hunt, still as boorish in the 1980s as he was in the 70s of Life on Mars, having migrated down south. ...

Published Tue, May 26

Ashes To Ashes: Dean Andrews

source: Manchester Evening News

 UK Ashes To Ashes (BBC1, tonight, 9pm) links back to Manchester filmed and set Life On Mars via the arrival of journalist Jackie Queen (Ruth Millar). We learn that DCI Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister) has returned to the city he once protected for a police ...

Published Sun, May 10