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.
Please bring Home Fires back! Quality series cut way too short. Just watched first 2 seasons on Amazon Prime. Very unprofessional to leave viewers hanging like this. Netflix or Amazon or another….please take this up! Apparently much of Season 3 was already written with lots of great story lines to continue….
One of the best shows on TV! Why cancel it ? “Refreshing you portfolio “ is a really poor
reason. That doesn’t even make sense. Don’t producers care what their fan base like and want, or is it just “numbers” to them? Evidently the producers aren’t interested in good acting and quality stories. BRING BACK HOME FIRES for Season Three!
Please bring back Home Fires! You can’t just leave us hanging. There are maybe half a dozen story lines abruptly cut off!
So incredibly disappointed to see this show cancelled. Thanks to the cast & crew for a truly great drama. Shocking to me that this decision was made & what a very poor decision it was! Maybe another network will see this show’s enormous value & bring it back!
I sincerely hope that season 3 will be produced. This is a wonderful series and we were looking forward to the continuation of the story.
This is my very favorite British series, and I so looked forward to finding out what happened after the plane hit the house. There should be a law against leaving the audience in such a state. Shame on you, ITV.
So very sorry to read Home Fire’s has been cancelled. What a cliff-hanger to leave us with! Can’t you give a final episode or two to tie up loose ends?
My husband and I loved Homefires! Such a shame that this Masterpiece Classic was cancelled. We hope this can be renewed at some point very soon. We would not miss it. Loved the story, characters and everything about it.
I very much enjoyed the first two seasons. Sorry and disappointed to see it cancelled.
I enjoyed season 1 and 2 and wished it had continued for season 3. Disappointed.
Continue the Home Fires series with another TV station. The strength of the Great Paxford community coming together was very inspiring.
I loved this series and was shocked upon finding it cancelled. As an American, I found it very educational to see how the people of Great Britain persevered under the Nazi aerial onslaught. The stories were well written and the acting wonderful. I would love to see the series return.
I cannot believe this show was cancelled! The only thing I was very disappointed about, was bringing homosexuality into the story. Other than that it was an incredible story, and the characters were amazing! The story of a wife who was abused, beaten, and you leave the story in the air? No explanation to the faithful viewers as to why it was canceled. Very sad, and disappointed. I pray they bring it back for at least one more season, to close the chapter. Thank you.
Please bring back Home Fires for a 3rd Season. We so enjoyed the quality of this program and are heartbroken that there is not a satisfying conclusion. To leave something hanging out in the air is upsetting and cruel to the viewers and the actors in the program. Please bring back the program . . .
Please bring Home Fires back! We need intelligent and worthwhile programming during these uncertain times. Lisa Doyle Katonah NY.