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.
I absolutely LOVE Home Fires!!!! Can’t believe it was cancelled . . . PLEASE reinstate this fabulous series. Thanks!
I have been watching home fires , I love it and so sad and frustrated to find out that it is cancelled!!
Bring HomeFires back! Such a great show and the finale of season 2 left so many things open ended. 🙁
Love Home fries! please bring back season 3!!! Such a dramatic show with amazing characters from all backgrounds. Unfair to end on cliff hanger and then cancel.
I am devastated to learn there is no season 3 of Home Fires. Just discovered it and binge watched Season 1 & 2 and would gladly pay to enjoy another season or two.
Please continue “Home Fires”! It is a wonderful Masterpiece Theater production.
We must have a Season 3 Homefires. This is just the BEST show, and fabulous acting and history as well.
Would love to have understood the mindset that chose to cancel this show with its outpouring of support to no avail. I don’t know what replaced it but how could that have been materially better?
Bummer, was so looking forward to Season 3 of Home Fires…
Riveting….bring it back!
I am so sad and disappointed the Home Fires will not have a Season 3 and more! I hope the powers that be will reconsider. The cast is wonderful as is the story line. All the nasty, graphic and filthy shows go on and on. These series that are more true to life, filmed with dignity and class apparently don’t appeal to the masses that crave depravity, so they are thrown aside. But there are a great many that are so appreciative of series like Home Fires. Please don’t forget about us!!
Bad decision Great story with a great cast. Was looking forward to Bob getting his just deserve.
I truly love and respected the toughness of the English people during WWII. Home Fires is a reminder of how the people coped with the many challenges during that period. Great acting and terrific casting. I look forward to some sort of Season 3.
I am extremely disappointed to hear of the cancellation of this great series. Our PBS station here in Maryland in the U.S. has had some wonderful British shows, and “Home Fires” is just one of them. My friends and family and I were so looking forward to what happened to season 2. and the characters and how they were coping with life on the home front, Sincerely hoping someone at ITV has a change of heart.
I’m so disappointed that season 3 is not to be. I just watched season one and two on PBS repeats. T was looking forward to season 3. All the good
shows end to soon. Any chance you can reconsider?