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.
darn why cancel a show that is so good -??- as least give a finale to tv viewers another season and don’t leave us hanging– just don’t understand all these darn cancelations of good quality shows – its crazy!
The story is great and the actors as well are very wonderful. It is so much better than any thing else on TV. Please don’t stop
Why did everyone wear a little cardboard box with a string over their shoulder?
If I remember my history, it was for their gas masks –
THANK YOU! I was wondering the same thing…I finally concluded everyone was carrying their lunch around with them – thank you for clearing that up!
Please reconsider…just absolutely loved this show! One of the best I have followed in a while, please don’t leave us all hanging!
With all the trashy, trite shows on TV, it’s very disappointing to have a quality show like Home Fires cancelled. I’m sure it’s too late now, but i wish ITV would reconsider.
With all of the insulting junk on television, why would anyone want to cancel such a classy and delightful show? Please reconsider!
I really enjoyed Home Fires and would very much like a third season, if only to finish the stories of people I have come to know. Just finishing the show so abruptly seems contemptuous of viewers.
I very much enjoyed Home Fires, and would like a season three to complete the story.
Really enjoyed this show and very disappointed not to be able to see it finished. It was a mistake to cancel.
A series as compelling as Downton Abbey. To cancel this series is a terrible mistake. Far better then other tv.
https://www.change.org/p/itv-itv-must-recommission-homefires
What Home Fires needs is a Christmas special. Like Downton Abbey and Call the Midwife did.
I really like this show and have been watching for when the next season would run. Very disappointed with the news that it is cancelled.
It is a great pity that such a splendid show as Home Fires has been cancelled. It is unfair to the viewers who have loyally watched and even purchased DVDs of both series only to discover there will be no Series three leaving the story totally untold. PLEASE think again and commence the story.
I loved watching Home Fires right from the first episode to the last. Please do a series 3 with a propper ending if you mut end the series!!
Home Fires has been an excellent series. The theme is quite unique and timely in our troubled world and makes for wonderful TV entertainment. I am shocked that a decision to cease producing any further series has been made, and plead that the decision is reconsidered.
Please bring it back,we need high quality shows like yours.