“My name’s Foyle and I’m a police officer…”

“It’s always been a series about a good man in evil times and I felt, particularly as we’re moving towards the end of the series, that I really wanted to confront Foyle with the ultimate evil“, says series creator, Anthony Horowitz. Horowitz is also promising faithful followers of the first seven series of Foyle’s War that the upcoming eighth series of the ITV drama will be more ambitious than those that have come before and will contain a shock for viewers. “For this season, we’ve built a concentration camp because Foyle visits Monowitz. Monowitz has been razed, so we couldn’t film there. And you’re not allowed to film in concentration camps anyway. Quite correctly, in my view. So we had to build it ourselves.“, said Horowitz, speaking to Radio Times. Horowitz is prepping for his #IsawMoriarty carriage tour which winds its’ way through the streets of London promoting today’s release of his newest print effort, Moriarty.
 

Last series saw Christopher Foyle, who has retired more often than Brett Favre, join MI-5 after World War II with longtime driver Samantha Stewart, played brilliantly by Honeysuckle Weeks, returning as his junior clerk on the grid. According to Horowitz, who has hinted that viewers might soon see an end to the series, the forthcoming episodes will continue to be set in a post-WWII/Cold War period and pick up where the last episode left off. Horowitz explained, “It’s now 1947 and we move directly on from where we were at the end of the last season. The first story (“High Castle”) will be concerned with the Nuremberg Trials, not of the Nazis, but of the industrialists who supported Hitler and who built the furnaces and the bombs. The second episode (“Trespass”) will look at Palestine, which is very ambitious because it’s a complicated and divisive field. And the third one (“Elise”) looks at a scandal within the Special Operations Executive, which has only recently come to light. It’s one of the most horrendous stories of the Second World War, which seems inexplicable even now.”

For PBS viewers, 2015 is already shaping up to be another brilliant year for British drama. You can now add Foyle’s War to the mix that already includes new seasons of Downton Abbey, Call the Midwife, Mr. Selfridge, Endeavour, Scott and Bailey, DCI Banks, Case Histories, Father Brown, Death in Paradise and New Tricks not to mention the new series premieres of Grantchester and Wolf Hall. To be honest, you had me at Foyle’s War!