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Posted By: klf11
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Posted On: Mar 3rd, 2009, 3:30 am
Source: THR
Category: General
Language: English
Subject: • ABC cancels 'Life on Mars'
ABC's "Life on Mars" won't return for a second season.

The network has decided not to renew the series starring Jason O'Mara as 2008 Detective Sam Tyler working as a cop in 1973 New York.

The series, from 20th TV and ABC Studios, will complete its 17-episode freshman series order with the season finale written as a series finale that will wrap the loose story ends, explain how Tyler got transported back in time and (maybe) bring him back to his own time.
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Phillostar

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Posted By On Wednesday, March 4th 2009 4:10 am  
Too bad, i like the serie and its seventies setting. In my opinion Life on Mars and Fringe were the best and refreshing new series of 2008.
itaintrite
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Posted By On Wednesday, March 4th 2009 8:34 pm  
About time!!! I just don't get it. We've seen this time and time before. Great original British show. Crap Hollywood version. They would have fared better showing the original Life on Mars. Loved it!

Phillostar, go check out the British version.
Zarius

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Posted By On Thursday, March 5th 2009 11:18 am  
Despite only lasting one season, it STILL lasted longer than the original version (JUST)
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Posted By On Thursday, March 5th 2009 9:19 pm  
I really wanted to like it, and I watch it faithfully because of Jason O'Mara. But I can't say I'll miss it. I hope he gets something else soon.
lew1978

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Posted By On Friday, March 6th 2009 3:47 pm  
Why the fuck, another good show gone. Jason O'Mara a quality actor has another show cut short.
LiMillr
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Posted By On Friday, March 6th 2009 5:44 pm  
I will miss this show. It was fun to see what things were like in the 70s and how we have changed and Jason O'Mara is great as is Harvey Keitel. But stupid shows like The Bachelor and The Bachelorette will live on. Go figure
IGotBupkis
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EXTERMINATE!!!
Posted By On Sunday, March 8th 2009 11:30 am  
Hey, just one more reason to watch The Dumbass, Stupid, Boring Adventures of Old Unfunny Christine. I'm sure that's getting renewed. And you can always dig out your DVDs of all four seasons of Two Guys, A Girl, And A Pizza Place...

The TV Programming Rule: stupid shows make it, ones that are beyond the understanding of the exceedingly low bar of TV executives fail.

For this one, the execs are still stuck on "What? He's back in 1973? That can't happenm can it?!?"

As someone who lived through the 70s, btw, a couple things the show misses is
1) Racial tension (greatly improved over the 60s, but we don't want to be so non-PC as to show that things are a LOT better now in at least some ways.
2) Nowhere near enough slang or "local time" references. People on the show don't use topical comments or crack jokes and references to timely associations that no one would make these days (Mention of hot TV shows, movies, and so on would be one example). I mean, they're cops in NYC, they'd make references to shaft all the time. And, also not surprising, the absolute taboo against the "N" word wasn't in play yet, either. Vietnam and US-Soviet relations were much more on peoples' minds at that time, too. Refs to them are surprisingly uncommon.

Note that I'm not surprised by this, the refs would slip past many nowadays, and you certainly can't get away with the "N" word in this ultra-PC day and age, no matter the fact that it harms accuracy. I mention these things because, while you're not getting an awful picture of the early 70s, you're not getting on that's quite as good as one might hope.

> Great original British show. Crap Hollywood version.
Thanks for demonstrating that you have an opinion despite not having actually seen the American version. I 've watched enough of the UK version to know that the American version if fairly faithful to the UK version, albeit "slower" (no surprise, the UK version, consisting of 2 UK seasons is only 16 eps, which is less than even the truncated first US season...

Be happy this way: It means there'll be no US version of the sequel, "Ashes to Ashes"
Jeri17
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Posted By On Monday, March 30th 2009 3:52 am  
I guess it's better to follow every "Tom, Dick, & Harry" who's either crawling through mud, pretending to fall in love then change their mind when "game" over....Or maybe follow what latest celebrity has to cry about his or her accommodations aren't up to standards? I mean why should ABC keep a show on that allows the audience to do a little thinking? Now we all know why the networks are losing their audience.
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