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.
Husband and I LOVE this show. Please, someone, bring it back!
Absolutely it should be renewed. It is one of the best shows on tv. Please reconsider!
I had no idea “Home Fires” had ended – such an abrupt and unsatisfying way to end a very good show. I simply do not understand the mindset that could do this to a drama that was so very popular both in Britain and the US. Like Tina, who wrote earlier, I am British but living in America and this show brought back so many good memories of the good old W.I. to which my Mum belonged for many years. Sad and silly to leave us hanging in the middle of a very good storyline.
Loved the show and it ended so abruptly I did not even realize it was the ending until I could not find it the nexx week.
We loved the show and want to finish the story. Please do Season 3.
My family, friends, and I keep checking to see if Home Fires will receive a reprieve. It was one of the finest programs televised. We did not enjoy Charles III — complete nonsense. Please reconsider and bring back Home Fires, one of the most enjoyable, intelligent, and informative series we’ve seen.
Very disappointing ending to a great show. You could have at least
done two more episodes which end on a happy note.
So sorry to find out season 3 of Home Fires was cancelled. I really enjoyed that show and couldn’t wait to find out what happened to Pat and the rest of the ladies. How can we be left hanging like that. Please, please reconsider.
It is difficult to understand how this network, esteemed for decades for the quality of programs, would drop Home Fires which has established itself as first class with a huge and loyal following. If the goal is now to become more Americanized, it over reached with King Charles III. How shocking to begin with the death of HRH. Then deteriorate from there. I am embarrassed for the Royal Family. This is trash, a low point I never dreamed I would see on Masterpiece. Is this really what ITV believes the their viewers want?
Loved, loved, loved the show Home Fires, great acting, so realistic and very well researched, and you cancelled it for that DRIVEL ‘Charles III’ with its ridiculous story line, mediocre actors and poor dialogue! How about giving the people who pay your salaries, us viewers, a choice of what we want to watch and what we think is good TV.
We loved Home Fires. We want that so called author to get his comeuppance.
And want to know how the newly married do. and Noah, and everyone, and the new baby. COME BACK SHANE.
I have just been watching the new “Charles III” on public television – absolutely rubbish! Acting is poor – the dialogue is WORSE! This is what you are putting against a tremendous program as “Home Fires”? If this is the best you can do, you really need to get someone else to give honest criticism. This is pitiful – bad and extremely pitiful!
They must be crazy! This show is outstanding from the actors to the script to the scenery! It would certainly be in their best interest to renew this wonderful series! It isn’t fair to the viewers or to the cast and crew.
Tina SO very disappointed to hear this. I have never heard of the BBC or ITV cancelling a series in the middle. This was one of the BEST PBS dramas! Having grown up in the UK( and now living in the US), with my father having been a member of the RAF, my grandfather an air-raid warden, and my Mum a young woman during WW2, I was finally beginning to understand a little of what life was like for them living in Bristol, which was badly blitzed. We even a had an air-raid shelter in our back garden. Both my… Read more »
Unbelievable – with such a cliffhanger at the end of season 2. Sham on ITV