Home Fires TV show image courtesy of ITV.
You can’t keep the home fires burning in UK. The Home Fires TV show has been cancelled by ITV. Actor Daniel Ryan, who played Bryn Brindsley in the World War II era drama, broke the bad news on Twitter. His tweet reads: “So, it is with huge sadness I must tell you that #HomeFires has been cancelled. Awful to leave stories untold and lives incomplete. Sorry.”
Executive producer Catherine Oldfield also tweeted about the Home Fires cancellation, saying: “So very sorry that #Homefires won’t be back. We loved making the show & that it was well received by so many made it all the more special.” The Home Fires cast also includes: Samantha Bond, Francesca Annis, Ruth Gemmell, Claire Rushbrook, Ed Stoppard, Chris Coghill, Clare Calbraith, Fenella Woolgar, Mark Bazeley, and Mike Noble. Many of them have tweeted about the cancellation, too.
The second season of the Home Fires TV series is set during the summer of 1940. The village of Great Paxford is caught up in the the Battle of Britain. Two weeks after the defeat at Dunkirk, with the German army advancing through France, Britain braces itself for invasion.
Home Fires season two ended on a cliffhanger, with a plane nose-diving into a home in the village.
Here are some of the tweets on Home Fire‘s cancellation.
https://twitter.com/_DanielRyan/status/730365719125299201
So very sorry that #Homefires won't be back. We loved making the show & that it was well received by so many made it all the more special.
— Catherine Oldfield (@catoldfield) May 11, 2016
We're all heartbroken at the decision from the channel. #homefires is no more. . thank you for your extraordinary support .. so sorry xx
— Leroy Peterson (@lryp14) May 11, 2016
Devastated we can't complete the #homefires story. The most incredible cast and crew ever. Apparently 6m wonderful viewers not enough.
— Sophie Bicknell (@SophieBicknell) May 11, 2016
https://twitter.com/markumbers/status/730370363713060866
Radio Times reports ITV has confirmed it cancelled Home Fires. “An ITV spokesman said: ‘We are incredibly proud of what Home Fires has achieved, but the ITV commissioning team continues to refresh the channel’s drama portfolio, hence the decision not to commission a further new series’.”
The Radio Times poll currently shows 97% of respondents disagree with ITV’s decision to cancel Home Fires. Fans are petitioning ITV via Change.org, to recommission Home Fires for a third season. As of this writing, it has 7,463 signatures. In the US, the first season of Home Fires premiered on PBS in October, 2015.
What do you think? Are you a fan of Home Fires? Should the Home Fires TV show have been cancelled or renewed? Let us know, below.
For goodness sake, finish the series so we can reach closure. We do not want to read a conclusion, we want to see it dramatized. Is the problem that you can’t figure out how to bring the characters forward? Put your thinking cap on and get it done!!! Please….
Won’t some other Television network PLEASE pick up this amazing story?
Can’t believe there will be no season 3. This is a real quality program and so well done.
Why was it canceled?
very dissapointed not to be getting season three. What ever the problem was please please make it up like good boys and finish it
It doesn´t seem fair to leave us hanging. The show has been one of my favorites, and I was hoping for a season 3.
Pleas do not cancel Home Fires. It is excellent acting and one of the better shows around!
Very human and real.. Do they have to kill what is really high quality art?
Please do not cancel HomeFires!!!!
i am so sad. Finally got a good show to watch and it’s canceled. Please end the story and give us a season three.
NOOOOO!!!!! Please don’t cancel this show! I just completed Season 2 as we have been traveling and was researching when Season 3 would start. I’m so sad! Please bring it back!!
Forgive the terminology but some birdbrain decided to cancel this wonderful series and now will never admit their mistake. That person should lose his/her job!!!
I was shocked to hear of the abrupt cancellation of this wonderful show. I was so into it I couldn’t wait for the next episode. There is so much garbage on tv now and it was nice to know there were still a few good shows left. Whoever made this decision is a complete idiot! BRING IT BACK NOW!
I am extremely sad to see such a very good series ended way too soon! What in the name of all that is holy made someone think that was a good idea?? BRING IT BACK!!!! Please!!!
Well written, superbly cast, purchased Season 1 and Season 2 on Amazon.
I absolutely loved this show!! It has amazing acting! It’s seems like cruel and unusual punishment to be ending the show on a cliffhanger for goodness sake!!! PLEASE BRING IT BACK!
There is little programming that I will watch in this day and age. Most of it is mindless trash. How unfortunate for those of us that enjoy something worthwhile.