ASHES TO ASHES: Gene Hunt and Alex Drake are back
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
TV cop Alex Drake (Keeley Hawes) and Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister) are back for another series of Ashes to Ashes.
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ASHES TO ASHES: Gene Hunt is back as Alex Drake guns for another villain
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
TV cop Alex Drake (Keeley Hawes) guns for another villain in the new series of Ashes to Ashes.
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Business Diary: DCI Hunt's collar felt over 'sexist' M&S ads
The Independent (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
It seems the humour police are hot on the trail of M&S and DCI Gene Hunt (aka Philip Glenister, of Ashes to Ashes and Life on Mars fame). The Advertising Standards Authority is looking into eight complaints about the chain's ad "Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without..." ads in which Glenister says "That girl prancing about in her underwear". Cut to French underwear...
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L(J) Space (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Welcome to fandom_smash ! Come one, come all, to the mutli-fandom ball! Well, it's not really a ball. It's an interactive LJ forum in which characters from all fandoms can interact, But 'ball' sounded nice and made a nice rhyme. Fandom Smash is ... Well, have you ever wanted to see something like ... oh let's say Sam Vimes to meet up with Gene Hunt? Well here's your chance! This is a...
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TV on DVD: "Life on Mars: Series 2"
Televisionary (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
... mystery from his childhood and the best fictional copper on television, the swaggering misanthrope Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister). Can Sam get home and save his girlfriend? Has he traveled back in time? Or is he losing his mind completely? Season Two deepens the mystery and the drama even as Sam moves closer both to understanding the nature of the place he's in (is he deep within his...
Explore : Life on Mars
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M&S Christmas Ad Rapped
The Daily Dust (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Marks and Spencer’s new Christmas ad has been branded as sexist. The ‘Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without…’ ad features actor Philip Glenister, who played chauvinist DCI Gene Hunt in the BBC show Ashes to Ashes, choosing “that girl prancing around in her underwear”. Model Noemie Lenoir is then shown wearing only a bra and knickers asking...
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Who wants to complain about M&S?
Hard of Understanding (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
About their prices? About the sheer middle class snobbery that drives it? About past practices inolving unethical labour? Nope. About their new Christmas ad! The "Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without......" one. The Advertising Standards (ASA) have received a number of complaints branding the advert "sexist" for including DCI Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister) who as...
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M&S vs Diet Coke
Norfolk Blogger (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Apparently the latest M&S Christmas ads are being complained about because they are sexist because Philip Glenister , very much in character as DCI Gene Hunt from Ashes to Ashes, says he wants as his Christmas present the girl from the ad who takes her clothes off. Strange that those people who are complaining never moaned about women lusting after naked men in the Diet Coke ads from...
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Sexism or light humour? Who cares - it wouldn’t be Christmas without controversy!
The Twydall Tory (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The M&S Christmas advert has been the subject of 8 complaints to the Advertising Standards Agency over it’s “sexist” scenes. Philip Glenister, of Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes, says that it wouldn’t be Christmas without “that girl prancing around in her underwear” - in reference to his chauvinist character Gene Hunt. Personally, I think that [...]...
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Marks and Spencer's Christmas 2009 advert
AdTurds - Adverts That Are Shit (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Eight people have complained about this ad, which features Philip Glenister channelling DCI Gene Hunt, because he makes a reference to a 'girl prancing around in her underwear'. It may have escaped the attention of these viewers, but approximately 80 per cent of all adverts feature girls prancing around in their underwear – particularly Marks & Spencer's adverts. It's one of...
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Sexism by M&S at Christmas?
The Not So Secret Diary of a Grumpy Old Woman (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
... & Spencer advert I thought I’d better have a look. I mean to say, Philip Glenister - aka Gene Hunt - sexist? never. Hmm, I wonder - this bit of extra FREE advertising must be working well for Marks & Sparks if they’ve gotten through to people like me who mostly ignore advertising! ... Ooooh yes, he is being sexist - but as far as I can tell they’re just playing...
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Life on Mars star's turn in Marks & Spencer ad attacked over 'sexism'
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
ASA considering investigation after Philip Glenister's Gene Hunt-esque role in advert attracts complaints Life on Mars actor Philip Glenister's spot in Marks & Spencer's Christmas TV campaign has been accused of being sexist toward women. In the £10m ad campaign, which broke last week, Glenister is seen propping up the bar at the end of the ad, after a series of scenes that...
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John Lewis uses Guns N' Roses
The Observer (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
... Saunders, James Nesbitt, Stephen Fry and Philip Glenister, reprising his role as Ashes to Ashes ' Gene Hunt. Tesco, which also went on screen last week, is using its new "family" fronted by Cold Feet actor Faye Ripley and Mark Addy of Full Monty fame. Morrisons is pinning its hopes on Top Gear's Richard "The Hamster" Hammond, while Sainsbury has a new Jamie Oliver...
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Ashes to Ashes star Philip Glenister spark's sexism row in Marks and Spencer Christmas advert
Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
... deciding whether or not to launch an investigation. Glenister plays non-politically correct cop Gene Hunt in the BBC1 show Ashes to Ashes.
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Harvey Keitel joins cast of 'Little Fockers'
Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
... Dern for the next instalment. One-time Bad Lieutenant Keitel, who has recently been playing the Gene Hunt role in the US version of Life On Mars, will reportedly play a contractor employed by Stiller's character, according to Hollywoodreporter.com. The third movie, coming after Meet The Fockers, has the working title of Little Fockers, and we presume plot will involve Greg and Pam...