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Go on to Twitter.
   I thought the Americans would carry on with Life on Mars through till the début of Ashes to Ashes’ second series in March so I could get my fix, but they are stopping till late January. So, in the meantime, you can keep up with Tweets from GeneHunt, whom I discovered was following me on the Twitter service today.
   Of course, it’s probably because the squad suspects me of Mark Thatcher’s disappearance in the Sahara but they will find it’s all to do with Keeley’s former colleagues at MI5. Or when I caused Freddie Laker’s airline to collapse. (Yes, yours truly exists in different times and dimensions.)
   Go to Gene’s page and there is dialogue, believe it or not, with fellow Twitterers RayCarling, DCChrisSkelton and anniecartwright, along the lines of:

RayCarling: @GeneHunt I wouldn't trust that bookie Guv, he’s handled more bent notes than a poofs choir!
anniecartwright: @raycarling Oooh I’ll ’ave a babysham or a Snowball as you’re offering Ray.
GeneHunt: Drugs bust update: We’ve had a bigger tip-off than a bacon slicer counter-assistant working in a nudist colony.

and, in line with current events (the Children in Need special):

GeneHunt: Why should I let a miniature scrotum like you drive my car Hammond?

‘Gene’ (stop waggling your fingers every time you say my name) even responds to fans, in this case about American Life on Mars:

@www_ora_tion_ca Let’s just say … Keitel better not come to my parish or the poof’ll need more than a pair of sunglasses for protection.

   There does not appear to be an Alex Drake or Sam Tyler related to the show, but they are probably in a coma, Purgatory, mad, back in time, or something else.
   I also don’t know if this is authorized by the BBC, though GeneHunt gives his URL as www.bbc.co.uk/drama/ashestoashes/. Then again, DCI Gene Hunt does not need authorization from some scumbag in a Savile Row suit with something crammed up his jacksy.
   I suddenly have a hankering for some Garibaldis.