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ABC is expected to shine a big spotlight on "Life on Mars" during its presentation at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall. After lengthy negotiations, project has moved from producer David E. Kelley and 20th Century Fox TV to a coproduction with ABC Studios and a new trio of showrunners: Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec and Scott Rosenberg.
Series is based on the British time-traveler suspenser about a cop who through various circumstances finds himself transported back to 1973. Speculation is that "Mars" could land the plum Thursday 10 p.m. berth following "Grey's Anatomy" in the fall, while the time slot's current occupant, "Lost," is on its skedded hiatus until early in 2009.
From Variety
http://www.variety.com/VR1117985502.html
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I saw the original Life on Mars on "BBC America" and I just hope ABC can keep the gritty honesty of the characters without trying to water it down to some safe politically correct formula. It doesn't have to have cussing and what not, but it needs the same feeling of really being in the past that the BBC version had with it's non politically correct gruff attitude. The characters like I said were honestly portrayed as if a person had actually went back to 1973. Think of a bunch of Archie Bunkers with badges, only a lot tougher. I'm a huge sci-fi fan and I love time travel so I'm hoping ABC pulls it off and has another hit as big as Lost. They don't have much of anything else besides Lost I like to watch on that network at the moment.
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