The Living And The Dead: the BBC’s new supernatural drama
Its a set-souvenir fromAshes To Ashes, the time-travel police drama he co-created to followLife On Mars. Set in 1894 Somerset,The Living And The Deadis in the tradition of thedark English pastoral. The major conflict is as described in the title, a clash between the present and the past. In short, here be ghosts. The 1894 setting was inspired by Pharoahs love of Thomas Hardy. In a decade, its gone, really....