Lancaster: 'Ashes has no more mileage'

Marshall Lancaster has revealed that he is glad Ashes To Ashes is ending after its third series.

According to The Sun, the 34-year-old actor, who plays DC Chris Skelton in the BBC series, said that he wants to show to go out on a high rather than being "flogged to death".

"These sorts of shows have only so much mileage and it will have gone as far as it can," he said. "I think we can stretch only one more series out of it.

"Everything should draw to an end at some point and sometimes you can flog these things to death. You've got to aim for something like Fawlty Towers where they didn't film many episodes but they were all brilliant."

Discussing the final series of Ashes, he teased: "It will be a real eye-opener and won't be what everybody expects."

Lancaster can currently be seen playing Becky's ex-boyfriend Slug in Coronation Street.