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Life on Mars: Series One

by Christel Loar

[27.Jul.09] :. The show simultaneously manages to be a credible period cop show, a futuristic science-fiction thriller and something of a current social commentary.

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Second-season premiere of ‘Life on Mars,’ Wednesday on ABC

by Verne Gay [Newsday (MCT)]

[27.Jan.09] :. REASON TO WATCH: A fond and funkadelic look at New York City as it appeared 35 years ago. (Oh, yeah, and Michael Imperioli, in Fu Manchu and ‘burns.) WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Modern-day NYPD cop...

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Sci fi or spy fi? It’s hard to put a label on ‘My Own Worst Enemy,’ ‘Fringe’ and ‘

by Verne Gay [Newsday (MCT)]

[16.Oct.08] :. Years ago, some bright soul thought up a term to describe TV shows that made absolutely no sense. The term seemed to embrace almost anything that was not a “sitcom” or a...

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Now — or when? Tricks of time keep TV shows hopping

by Gail Pennington [St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT)]

[15.Oct.08] :. “You don’t screw with time,” Mama Petrelli warned Peter - technically, Future Peter - in the season premiere of “Heroes.” Peter didn’t heed the warning, and TV...

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Life on Mars: Series Premiere

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Oct.08] :. Harvey Keitel makes a great entrance in Life on Mars. You expect as much, of course, because he's Harvey Keitel. But it is truly great.

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Jason O’Mara goes back in time in ABC’s ‘Life on Mars’

by Luaine Lee [McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)]

[29.Sep.08] :. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.—When Jason O’Mara was a struggling actor in London he improvised a recipe that saw him though the lean times. “I got really good at going to the supermarket...

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