Life on Mars goes Starsky and Hutch.
I don’t quite see the point. Though I am not the intended audience, so well.
So he invests all his money into Microsoft, and later Cisco, and retires with a grossly huge fortune? It’s what I’d do!
I think it looks like it might turn out OK. Colm Meaney seems a good choice for Gene Hunt. While I doubt they will slavishly copy the original, it’s funny how some of the shots in that trailer are almost identical, like when he sees his face and '70s garb in the reflection in the car window. But 1972, not 1973, eh? I guess they have their reasons for that.
:bows: Thank you, I think that is the first time I have been quoted from a different thread.
One thing that took me right out of the original series was seeing a skinny twerp like John Simm act like a tough guy. It didn’t really work. Not a problem with the new guy. But he seems to be a little stiff from the trailer. Maybe because he is trying too hard to sound American. Good to see Lenny Clarke, I think he’ll be perfect for the show. I’ll give it a shot. If AFN carries it.
Expect to see The Godfather on a theater marquee.
Loach: you’re welcome. 
I don’t have high hopes for the show, but the trailer is absolutely horrible.
I don’t see how it was any worse than the commercials for the original.
Ah. Perhaps so, I didn’t see any commercials for the original, so I can’t compare.
I only saw those on BBC America. I’m assuming they were the same that were shown originally.
I tried watching the original on BBCA, but the combination of it being in a different time, in addition to an unfamiliar place, made it harder for me to get into than other series I’ve watched on the channel.
I couldn’t tell if something was weird (to me) because it was in England or because it was 30 years ago. There was nothing particularly wrong with the show, I just lost interest because of this “cultural-temporal gap” and wound up just deleting eps off the DVR instead of watching them.
I’ll give the American version a try, provided it’s not scheduled against shows I’m already watching.
It looks like like of of those shows that will be right if they gat all the details right, but they probably won’t.
The question I have is will this spur an American release of Life on Mars on DVD?
I keep trying to get Netflix to even admit that the series exists and might actually come to DVD, and they still can’t even admit that much. (muttermutter) Now they allow you to save a request for the 2008 US release. But still no recognition of the BBC version. Lousy provincial wombat-brained chauvinists.
My GOD that looks horrible… John Simm was SO good in the original… ABC has turned it into a cheesy 70’s cop show.
I need to go back and watch both seasons of the original now - just to erase that horrible mess from my mind.
I do not understand why this show is not on DVD, honestly. It’s not like the BBC doesn’t release American region dvds. Spaced will be released this summer. Jekyll was released shortly after it ran. My sister has a whole collection of BBC comedies and dramas and movies on DVD. I wonder if there’s some sort of issue with song rights? Usually when there’s a DVD delay, it has something to do with song rights.
Which, honestly, is one of the major reasons I hate DVDs.
LDs were universally encoded, and you could play your import without any problem. But, noooo… can’t have people playing legal copies they’ve bought at ruinous expense. It might, at some point in the future, when the rights-holder gets around to it, interfere with overseas sales.
(mutter mutter mutter)
Music.
The Beeb paid the royalties for the original airing (presumably on all BBC outlets around the world), but when it was released over here, it was with generic music.
And TOS is a large part of what made the show great.
“Trust in the stars, baby, yes there’s life on Mars” -Happy Rhodes