Returning: Foyle’s War

ABC will return the detective drama Foyle’s War starring Michael Kitchen to screens next month. It will air the first of three 90 minute telemovies at 8:30pm Sunday July 20.

They are currently the final episode of the series after it was axed by an ITV executive.

The axing meant that writer Anthony Horowitz had suddenly to bring the drama set in World War II to a close and skip from 1943 to the end of the war.

However a statement by ITV has since indicated, “ITV has confirmed that following the huge popularity and success of the Foyle’s War series, early discussions have taken place with Foyle creator and writer Anthony Horowitz and Greenlit Rights about the possibility of keeping Foyle on our screens in the future.”

If that happens, expect Foyle (Michael Kitchin) to continue his work in peacetime.

Press Release:

Michael Kitchen is back as DCS Christopher Foyle for the final series of the popular BAFTA winning series Foyle’s War.

We begin episode one in April 1944. Something big is about to happen. Everyone on the South Coast can just feel it. Troops and Forces vehicles are on the move in vast quantities and the Allies have stepped up their bombing campaign over Germany and it would seem the end of the war is in sight.

Milner (Anthony Howell) has cracked a large fraud case involving false transportation claims for journeys that were never made but which cost the War Office thousands of pounds. The perpetrator, Burton (Phillip Fox), is a well-connected man and warns Milner to watch out – Burton’s got friends who wouldn’t be pleased to see him in jail.

Near Hastings, a church conference is taking place. Amongst the topics being discussed are the questions of forgiveness and reconciliation being offered to the Germans after the war, and the morality of Allied aerial bombardment of German cities. It’s a subject that invokes passions on all sides and somehow seems connected to a young RAF man’s untimely death.

With Foyle (Michael Kitchen) having resigned and at home working on his memoirs, it seems the last chapter of policing Hastings in war will happen without him. DCS Meredith (Nicholas Day) is the new man in charge at Hastings police station. Fed up with the new boss, Milner has applied for a transfer. No longer needed as a police driver, Sam (Honeysuckle Weeks) has also found new employment – although she’s being very reluctant to tell people what the new job involves. In any spare time she has, she works as a typist for Foyle – with very mixed results.

3 x 90′ app.

Additional source: Guardian