Here's a BBC sci-fi/crime Drama which is starting on the ABC TV this Sunday 20th May at 8.30 pm.
I have been following this series on the net and looks very good as it explores one of my favourite Sci-Fi subjects 'Time Travelling'. It looks the best TV Show of the week.
Here's some basic Information about this TV Show:
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The central character is DCI Sam Tyler of Greater Manchester Police (played by John Simm), who, after being hit by a car in 2006, finds himself somehow transported back to 1973.
There, he works for Manchester and Salford Police CID as a DI under DCI Gene Hunt (played by Philip Glenister).
Over the course of the series, Tyler faces various culture clashes, most frequently regarding differences in his approach to policing compared to that of his colleagues. The series also features a strong ambiguity concerning Tyler's predicament: It is unclear whether he really has travelled back in time, is in a coma in 2006 and imagining his experiences, or if he is from 1973 but mentally unstable.
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 7:31 pm
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it got the same guy from primevil
this looks ok
Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 11:43 pm
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enterprise_admin wrote:
it got the same guy from primevil
this looks ok
No Mr Enterprise it's a different actor than the guy who plays the professor in Primeval TV Series. l
Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 11:53 pm
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After watching Episode 1 of the first series I'm hooked and cannot wait for the next episode. The Viewer is still not sure if DI Sam Tyler has actually timetravel back to 1973 or is hallunating(as part of being in a coma).
He hears voices talking to him and ringing in the ears. Very strange indeed I guess we'll find out more next week.
Stay Tuned!
What did other members think of this show?
Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 7:47 pm
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i saw the first ep as well and it seems ok to me but will have to wait for the next one.
Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 1:25 am
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Series one
Previewing the first episode for the Radio Times, the magazine's television editor Alison Graham described the series as "a genuinely innovative and imaginative take on an old genre... This sounds silly, but writers Matthew Graham, Tony Jordan and Ashley Pharoah give the drama wit and heart."[17] The series was also featured on the front cover of that week's issue of the magazine, with a publicity photograph of Simm and Glenister. In a preview behind-the-scenes feature for SFX, Steve O'Brien declared that "it looks like BBC One has — and we'll lay large bets on this — a monster hit on its hands... It's funny... and dramatic and exciting, and we're really not getting paid for saying this."[18]
Reaction following the broadcast of the opening episode was also generally positive. Reviewing the opening instalment in The Guardian the day after transmission, Sam Wollaston wrote: "For anyone of 40 or over, it's fabulous fun... But Life on Mars was more than just a jolly, tongue-in-cheek romp into the past... Once there, in 1973, we find ourselves immersed in a reasonably gripping police drama — yes, The Sweeney, perhaps, with better production values... Or put another — undeniably laboured — way, as poor Sam Tyler walks through his sunken dream, I'm hooked to the silver screen. And yes, I know it's actually a small screen."[19]
Other newspaper critics gave the series similarly positive reviews, with James Walton of the Daily Telegraph saying that "Theoretically, this should add up to a right old mess. In practice, it makes for a thumpingly enjoyable piece of television — not least because everybody involved was obviously having such a great time."[20] Peter Paterson of the Daily Mail did, however, reflect the views of many other commentators when he wondered "can its intriguing conceit be sustained over eight one-hour episodes?".[20]
The first episode was also a success in terms of viewing figures, with an average audience of seven million in the overnight ratings.[21] This was enough for the programme to win its timeslot with a 27% share of the total television audience for the hour from 9pm, one million viewers ahead of its nearest rival, Soapstar Superstar on ITV1.[21] In the following weeks, the competition on ITV1 came from the comedy-drama series Northern Lights, which gained a marginally higher overnight rating for its first episode against Life on Mars's second, 6.1 million (24% of the available audience) against 6 million.[22]
In subsequent weeks, however, Life on Mars fared better against Northern Lights. Episode three gained 6.2 million viewers and a 24% share against the second of Northern Lights which fell to 5.4 million (21%).[23] The trend continued in the following weeks, with Northern Lights not managing to beat Life on Mars again, and the series even managing a highest viewing figure since the first episode for episode five, which gained 6.7 million viewers and a 26% share.[24]
Critical reaction to the series also continued to be positive. Reviewing episode four in The Guardian, Nancy Banks-Smith wrote that: "Life on Mars was an inspired take on the usual formula of Gruff Copper of the old school, who solves cases by examining the entrails of a chicken, and Sensitive Sidekick, who has a degree in detection... No profession has changed more dramatically in the last 30 years than the police (I wish I could force more enthusiasm into my voice) but old coppers still make the best jokes."[25]
A selection of the magazine coverage surrounding the launch of the second series of Life on Mars in 2007, including the Radio Times cover with a mocked-up 1973 version of the cover, included on page three of the magazine.
The final episode gained 7.1 million viewers in the overnight figures, a 28% audience share which placed it well ahead of the nearest competition, the first episode of the two-part drama Love Lies Bleeding on ITV1, which gained 5.4 million (23%).[26]
In November 2006, the first series of Life on Mars won the International Emmy Award for Best Drama Series.[27] In January 2007 it won the Best New Programme category at the Broadcast Magazine awards.[28] In March 2007 it won two categories, Best Drama Series and the Writers' Award, at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards.[29] On April 11, 2007, the day after the transmission of the series' last-ever episode, it was announced that series one had been nominated for a British Academy Television Award (BAFTA) in the Best Drama Series category. John Simm was also nominated as Best Actor for his work on the show.[30] However, neither won, being defeated by The Street and Jim Broadbent respectively. The programme did however win the audience-voted Pioneer Award.[31]
Series two
The first episode of the second series gained an overnight rating of 5.7 million on BBC One,[32] winning its timeslot, with the closest opposition being Trial and Retribution on ITV1, which gained 5.5 million.[32] However, this was over a million lower than the 6.8 million average Life on Mars gained for its first series episodes.[32] The premiere of the second episode immediately afterwards on BBC Four gained 747,000 viewers, the best audience of the day for a digital television-only channel.[33]
The first episode was praised by the Radio Times's television editor Alison Graham in her preview, who wrote: "Sam Tyler and Gene Hunt are shaping up nicely as one of the great TV detective partnerships... It's vastly enjoyable and manages to stay just about believable thanks to some strong writing and, of course, the two marvellous central performances."[34] However, Nancy Banks-Smith in The Guardian felt that the time-paradox aspect of the episode was somewhat confusing.[35]
The final episode of series two gained the largest audience figure for the second run, with an average of seven million people, a 28% audience share, in the overnight ratings.[36] This was despite competition from UEFA Champions League football on ITV1; the audience for Life on Mars rose from 6.6 million for the first half-hour to 7.7 million for the second once the football coverage had ended.[37]
Two days after the final episode's transmission, Life on Mars was attacked in the British press by the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers, who claimed that Gene Hunt's use of homophobic insults in the programme could encourage copycat bullying in schools.[38] The BBC responded to the suggestion by pointing out that Life on Mars was targeted at an adult audience, and that Hunt's characterisation was "extreme and tongue-in-cheek".[38]
This show is great I like the old Police shows from the 1970's as well and this bloke from the future is very good and abit funny sometimes. One of the best shows I have seen for awhile.
It was the last episode tonite Are there anymore episodes as you still don't know if his hacllinating or actually timetravel back? Also that bloke is Mr Saxon(The Master) in the New Dr Who Series which Syler has pointed out.
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Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 10:05 pm
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he sure is and a dam good master.
there is second series all ready
Ashes Flashes Back To '80s
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:07 pm
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Julie Gardner, executive producer of the upcoming BBC spinoff of the hit time-travel series Life on Mars, told SCI FI Wire that Ashes to Ashes will display the fashions of the 1980s in all their Day-Glo glory. "It's kind of Miami Vice in London," Gardner said in an interview at the Television Critics Association press tour in Beverly Hills, Calif. "It's all those things you remember, all those terrible fashion faux pas from the '80s. So it's big puff-ball skirts and bright colors and lipstick and big hair. ... We're gong to do all of that. And, hopefully, the occasional speedboat on the Thames or something."
Ashes to Ashes stars Keeley Hawes (MI-5) as deputy inspector Alex Drake, a modern-day police officer who finds herself in a predicament similar to that of Sam Tyler (John Simm) in Life on Mars. But instead of traveling back to the year 1973, Alex arrives in 1981. There she'll encounter unreconstructed detective chief inspector Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister) and the rest of his team of officers.
Gardner said that there are hints in the final episode of Life on Mars that will explain how Alex happens to encounter the same characters. "There is a clue there about how you can sustain a format," she said. "Because there are some back-references to Life on Mars, but essentially Ashes to Ashes stands alone. And what's great for us is the central continuation. It's Gene Hunt, the character, and he's brought some of his team with him."
Although the central premises of the two shows are similar, the writers have been careful to differentiate Ashes to Ashes from its predecessor.
"Matthew Graham and the team, they've just come up with a fantastic way of how that central character, played by Keeley, a character called Alex, gets back into this world," Gardner said. "Looking at a different period, a different decade, looking at the '80s, immediately gives them a lot of new story, and there are huge twists and turns for what happens to Alex. And I'm really not going to reveal them. There's going to be lots of layers. In the same way that Sam had his own journey, lots of kind of layered back stories. Lots of questions about the world and quite what is happening."
The actors will gather next week in London for the first time to read through the first script in the series, which was written by creator and executive producer Matthew Graham. Ashes to Ashes will air in the United Kingdom next year. —Cindy White
the Second series of Life on Mars premieres on the ABC TV
The UK drama will air from 8:30pm Thursday February 14.
John Simm returns for another stint at being trapped in 1973 for this lively UK cop show. He is again surrounded by lots of brown suits and politically-incorrect accomplices.
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Are there anymore episodes as you still don't know if his hacllinating or actually timetravel back? Also that bloke is Mr Saxon(The Master) in the New Dr Who Series which Syler has pointed out. 
