Life on Mars

BBC America Announces January Plans: "The Inbetweeners," "Last Restaurant Standing," "Demons," "Top Gear"

source: Televisionary

BBC America has today announced their scheduling plans for January 2010, unveiling new programming additions and the return of several series to the lineup. (Sadly, still no mention of Season Two of Ashes to Ashes, however.) The digital cabler has announced launch dates for comedy The In...

Published Tue, Dec 1

News: Waters of Mars Confidential!

source: Kasterborous Doctor Who Site

Don't miss BBC Three this Sunday evening as The Waters of Mars gets the Doctor Who Confidential treatment! This edition is obviously titled "Is There Life on Mars?" and spends an hour giving us interviews with the stars of The Waters of Mars - David Tennant and Lindsay Duncan, as well as Exe...

Published Fri, Nov 13

'We do things that most blokes would love – shoot guns and drive ...

source: Yorkshire Post Today

 UK - Chris Bond Then in 2006, he was offered the part of Det Sgt Ray Carling in a new BBC crime drama with a twist called Life on Mars. Sam Tyler (John Simm) of the Greater Manchester Police, who after being hit by a car finds himself back in the year 1973. ...

Published Thu, May 7

The Kansas City Star, Mo., Aaron Barnhart Column: 10 Shows That ...

source: California Chronicle

 CA - Aaron Barnhart BBC America is airing the British sequel to "Life on Mars." Now the lead is a female, and she's knocked back in time to 1981, where once again the object is to return to the present day through the wormhole of a detective room that thinks DNA is a ...

Published Thu, May 7

DCI Gene Hunt: the new/old Real Man?

source: topix.net

I could write a whole thesis about this guy, a lead character in BBC retro time-travel dramas Life On Mars and Ashes to Ashes , but this is a blog so here's a list of thoughts and impressions instead.

Published Tue, May 5

TV Review: Inspector George Gently, BBC One, Sunday 3 May, 8.30pm

source: TV Scoop

 UK Ingleby, whom a lot of you will best know as Sam Tyler's father in Life On Mars, has timing and charisma. For me, he brings something special to what could otherwise be a rather by-numbers detective series. Interview: Lee Ingleby Lancaster and Morecambe Citizen all 3 news articles

Published Mon, May 4

Interview: Lee Ingleby

source: Lancaster and Morecambe Citizen

He follows in the footsteps of fellow Nelson schoolboy John Simm, who starred in Life on Mars. Comparisons have inevitably been drawn between the two BBC retro cop shows. “I play Bacchus, who is the Gene Hunt character I suppose, but without being that ...

Published Sun, May 3

ABC's Mars to air in Hong Kong

source: C21Media

 UK NEWS BRIEF: Life on Mars, the US adaptation of the BBC time-slip cop drama that was last month axed by ABC, has been picked up for broadcast in Hong Kong, Singapore and Cambodia for the first time. AXN Beyond, a channel operated by Sony Pictures ...

Published Fri, May 1