Is it over?

Sadly YES !!!

http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/multi-platform/news/wire-in-the-blo od-axed/1985053.article

Yes, ..... but what an ending.

It is what it is.

There is a rumor that American TV station (heard it was CBS) might be making an American version!!!

Production costs - that's the supposed reason. Except there's no reason the first three seasons weren't as good as or better than the last three, and the production costs were certainly not as significant.

I'm not defending the decision to cancel, mind, because given the drek here, I'll take the Wire in the Blood anyday, but just playing a bit of devil's advocate: hadn't the show rather reached its nadir? I mean, how many serial killers can there really be in a place like Bradfield when there aren't that many operating in the United States at any given time during a year? Unless they're all just gagging to let Tony Hill have a go at their respective psyches. It's like the per capita murder rate in Murder, She Wrote. Pretty soon, the show would just become a farce. Perhaps it's better to let it go while it's still pretty damned good (though never as good without Hermione Norris).

As to Tony's being arrested over Michael's death, I think, given the fact that he'd been given police protection, he was abducted out of his car, and one of his immediate colleagues ended with her head boiling in a pot of basil (don't know about that basil bit, just theorizing from the Keats' poem), I think you can safely say that there will be an inquiry, but in no way will charges be laid against Tony. And Tony may not have killed Anjelica Bains, but he ventured into the dark side there, and the series managed to continue. That really was the epitome of Tony walking hand in hand with murder for me.

Best Episodes: the Mermaids Singing; Redemption; and Synchronicity.

The American version is going to be slag city unless they decide to do it on a pay channel like HBO, Showtime, Starz, etc... The censors would take out anything non-pc, eliminate the nudity, and lower the violence. Plus, they'll probably give the lead character to some beefcake actor too young to be taken seriously.

Robson played Tony Hill to perfection. His social awkwardness didn't seem at all contrived. Plus, those piercing blue eyes that were so often displayed on numerous close-ups in the later seasons were just gorgeous. ;)

I know a lot of people were against it, but I really preferred Alex Fielding to Carol Jordan. I don't know how Carol was portrayed in the book, but on screen she came off as a real opportunistic witch who basically took credit for everything Tony did, contributed nothing to the investigation (except for the ep where she was hit by a car), and would constantly yell at Tony out of frustration or what appeared to be mood swings. Alex asking Tony to "think" came out as supportive urging whereas Carol would shout at him like an abusive school teacher.

Some of that may have been how the character was written though, so I'm not blaming the actress who played her, per se. And while I'm not usually a fan of kids in serious drama series, I really enjoyed the dynamic that Fielding's son, Ben, brought to the relationship.

I just finished watching this show on DVD (fortunately my local library has copies of the entire series). I really have enjoyed it as one of the edgier detective series I've seen in a while. From checking the internet, it appears this show was cancelled after it finished broadcasting its last (6th) season, so the writers may well have intended to continue it. One thing that struck me as odd was that in the final episode ("The Dead Land"), the character of Alex was mostly missing, with the explanation being that she was attending to her mother's funeral. I am wondering if the writers were intending to write that character out of the show and replace her with the DI Hall character. Or was it just that Lahbib was busy and couldn't work on that particular episode. I guess we'll never know for sure now. Too bad it is over. And I hope they don't try to clone it here in America.

I just finished a major marathon of watching the whole series for the past week. I feel as if I have been left hanging. Oh man! I wish they had shows like WITB in the US, not to say that I want them to remake this show...not at all, cuz it wouldn't be the same without Robson Green playing Tony. That actor is irreplaceable...as well as all the other regulars. They make the show! Oh well, I guess I'll have to move on and find another gem on Netflix! RIP WITB!!!

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