But she is a hostage negotiating psychologist.

8 eps of A2A will not likely be enough, no matter how bad it is.

A dedicated fan.

I infected Rowan with love of the show as well.

The best forum for it is http://domeofstars.com/forum/index.php

Most of the live journal pages for LoM have degenerated into slash fanfic posts.

A good site for LM S1 is http://versaphile.com/lom/

You get it from teh Interweb!

In episode 3, Alex punches Gene, and a fun time was had by all.

I am tempted to rip a gif of it.

It was a statement image, like the bit of Sam and Gene leaping over the desk n LoM s1e1.

I love that scene.

Broke down and started watching it eh???? COOL!!!!

That was from LoM, but yeah I did watch the first episode of Ashes to Ashes.
It's pretty cool and I love the music, but I still miss Sam. :(

How did I KNOW you were going to say THAT

It now appears that the popular BBC television show “Life on Mars” won’t only see a remake in the United States under the tutelage of “The Practice” and “Boston Legal” guru David E. Kelley, but will also be making a splash in Spain.

Spanish terrestrial broadcaster Antena 3 TV will provide its own version of the high-concept cop drama with the title “Vida en Marte.”

Most of the action will take place in 1978 Madrid. The show will be shot on location in that major city, but also on locations throughout Spain. Like the U.K. original the stories will center on the life of a time-travelling police detective.

It is scheduled for a primetime appearance sometime during the 2009 television season.

Oh yeah, it will most certainly suck.

Maybe it will get killed before it grows.

The "government conspiracy" angle is a step up.

I can't say I'm a fan of this double standard where it's portrayed as being "ok" for a woman to slap (let alone punch) a man but not the other way around. I think it is just as wrong for a woman to do this as a man and I don't like movies or tv constantly showing this as acceptable behaviour from a woman.

I'm starting to understand how it is that her parents got blown up in a car though.

I'm unclear though about this idea of conspiracy, conspiracy is about having a secret plan or plot to comit a crime.
Governments keeping certain actions or decisions from the public I'd think is pretty common and in some cases logical but hardly constitutes a conspiracy.

When the Canadian government was involved in rescuing a group of 6 US embasy members in Iran back in 1980 the government couldn't very well blab what they were up to.

Then again I could ask why it is that the US government has taken over an Canadian International port up the coast from me on Canadian soil and yet there is no word of this in the news or issued by my government.

I finally got around to watching it.

It has improved as the series has gone on.

Philip Glenister plays DCI Gene Hunt, as he did in Life on Mars. He says there is more to look forward to.

He said: "We'll start shooting a second series sometime in August. They've got an option for up to a third series.

"But you tend to get an instinct about when something should finish. And I certainly wouldn't want to drag it on and on.

"The character's too good for that. I care about the character too much."

Just 8 eps this season.

Looks like S2 is a go with an option for S3 though.

Pre-air media critic reviews of the final S1 episode seem positive.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/entertai...000/7293756.stm
So A2A and Torchwood end just as the next DW season ramps up, for what should be a 13 week run.

This is unholy:

In the Name of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, is nothing sacred, why do they need to remake a excellent show like Life On Mars?

Man About the House was a British sitcom starring Richard O'Sullivan, Paula Wilcox and Sally Thomsett that was broadcast for six series on ITV from 1973 to 1976. It was made by Thames Television, and two spin-offs were later made: George and Mildred and Robin's Nest. In 2004, it came 69th in Britain's Best Sitcom. The series was remade in the United States as Three's Company in 1977.

Remaking British show's has been going on ever since I can remember. I would guess it's all about money, cashing in on a good thing. They did it most recently with The Office.
The first one I recall was "Man about the house" a British Comedy that became known here as "Three's Company"
I LOVED Man About the House but after you had seen it it was impossible to like Three's Company.

We already had an American version of British time-travel show Life On Mars — it was called Journeyman, and it ruled for the half season it was on the air. Sadly, someone decided we needed a literal cover version of Life On Mars, and we wound up with a shadow of the Brit version, as you can see from this side-by-side comparison of one of the most disturbing sequences from the original.

[12.15.08 - 02:35 PM]
BBC AMERICA ACQUIRES LIFE ON MARS SEQUEL - ASHES TO ASHES
Released by BBC America
[NOTE: The following article is a press release issued by the aforementioned network and/or company. Any errors, typos, etc. are attributed to the original author. The release is reproduced solely for the dissemination of the enclosed information.]

BBC AMERICA ACQUIRES LIFE ON MARS SEQUEL - ASHES TO ASHES

BBC AMERICA has acquired the U.S. premiere of Ashes to Ashes, the award-winning drama and eagerly awaited sequel to Life On Mars, premiering in March 2009.

Ashes to Ashes (16 x 60) produced by Kudos Film & Television in association with Monastic Productions and distributed by BBC Worldwide.

With the U.S. adapted version of Life on Mars currently on air, BBC AMERICA viewers have a chance to see what happens next to their favorite characters in the original U.K. series. In Ashes to Ashes, Detective Chief Inspector Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister) is transferred from Manchester to London and embraces the '80s. He is joined by sexy psychological profiler, Detective Inspector Alex Drake from 2008, played by Keeley Hawes (MI-5), who finds herself stuck back in 1981 having been shot.

Frustrated by each other's stubbornness, the friction between Alex and Gene heats up and as the two titans collide, it becomes apparent there is more than just a professional tension emerging. Hunt's faithful sidekicks, a newly permed Detective Sergeant Ray Carling and the overly cautious Detective Constable Chris Skelton, are also along for the ride as the new team takes on criminal scum in the nation's capital.

PRINCIPAL CAST INFORMATION:· Dean Andrews as Ray Carling· Keeley Hawes as Alex Drake· Marshall Lancaster as Chris Skelton· Philip Glenister as Gene Hunt