Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | yesterday
The folks behind ABC's "Life on Mars" say they were looking for someone iconic to play Detective Gene Hunt. They have found him: Harvey Keitel, star of "Mean Streets," "Taxi Driver" and "Bugsy." "Life on Mars" is an American version...
24headquarters.com (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Jack Bauer has come in #2 in UK poll of TV best loved heroes, conducted by the Hallmark Channel. Bauer lost first place to Life on Mars detective Gene Hunt. Poppycock I say. I’m sorry, it’ s UK poll and I’ve been dying to use that word in this blog for a year. Rounding out [...]
Sore Eyes (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
Courtesy of a discussion at James Nicoll's LiveJournal, news on a couple of remakes of UK TV shows: A trailer is out for the American remake of Life on Mars. I can imagine Colm Meaney giving us a decent Americanised Gene Hunt, but who knows whether any other aspect of the show will work when transposed [...]
Entertainment Tonight (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
ET has your first look at "Life on Mars," the new ABC fall series based on a Brit import. The series is the story of Sam Tyler ( JASON O'MARA ), a high-tech police detective who, after a car crash, time travels back to 1972, where he is still a cop, but has to adjust to old-school ways of doing the job. ABC is so high on the new drama that it has given it the cushy time slot -- 10 p.m. -- following...
