Life on Mars

So: "Life on Mars" lured 11.6 million viewers, while "Eleventh Hour" garnered 11.59 million. The problem for "Eleventh Hour" is that it lost a whopping 50% of its lead-in audience, which is dismaying, to say the least. "Life on Mars," on the other hand, retained 80% of its lead-in audience, wh...

Early in tonight's premiere of "Life on Mars," Sam Tyler (Jason O'Mara), a contemporary Manhattan police detective racing to the apartment of a suspect who has abducted his partner and girlfriend, is hit by a car - and comes to, finding himself in 1973. He gazes upward, and beholds the Twin...

Pro: Michael Imperioli ("The Sopranos") has joined the cast. "I definitely was being picky," Imperioli says of selecting roles after getting whacked by Tony. "It's a hard act to follow. You want something juicy and different." Pro: The new show runners are Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec, wh...

ABC's got "Life on Mars," based on a terrific British TV series about a police detective whose partner is kidnapped when he's hit by a car ... and wakes up in the macho '70s, where cop precincts were modeled after "Starsky & Hutch." It was developed for the network by David E. Kelley, but that'...

At CBS, there's yet another Jerry Bruckheimer show, "Eleventh Hour," "Exit 19," starring Geena Davis as a single mom/police detective, "The Mentalist," which sounds a little like a serious version of "Psych" and starring Simon Baker and the comedies "Single White Millionaire" (star...