“War” and “Peace”

Via Karen Meek’s Euro Crime blog comes some excellent and unexpected news for fans of the Michael Kitchen, World War II-era mystery series Foyle’s War, which recently ended its U.S. run on PBS-TV. Quoting from Britain’s Daily Mail:

The final episode of Foyle’s War may have ended conclusively with the characters celebrating VE Day--but it seems the much-loved ITV1 drama is set for a post-war revival.

In an exclusive interview with The Mail on Sunday, star of the show Honeysuckle Weeks reveals that Foyle’s War has given way to a new series entitled Foyle’s Peace.

Honeysuckle, who plays driver Samantha Stewart to Michael Kitchen’s Detective Chief Superintendent Foyle, said: ‘I have the contracts so they’ve got quite far with it and, although I haven’t seen scripts, the idea is that it’ll be set after the Second World War.’

The full Mail report, which includes several humorous statements from Weeks about the irritatingly prim nature of her Foyle’s character, can be found here.