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Page 1 of 2 View as a single page 5:00AM Friday August 08, 2008 By Gerard Gilbert Life On Mars, the time-travelling cop show has finished but its bigoted DCI Gene Hunt is returning, shifting cities - and channels - in 1980s sequel Ashes to Ashes, and his new sidekick is a woman. GERARD GILBERT reports The Sopranos was not the only concluding TV drama that left its devotees baffled. Also departing on an enigmatic note was the BBC time-travel cop show Life on Mars, in which a sensitive, modern-day policeman, Sam Tyler (played by John Simm), was transported back either bodily or mentally (we were never to be told) to the world of law and order as allegedly practised in 1970s Manchester. As Tyler asked himself each week, "Am I mad or in a coma or back in time?" Tempering the disappointment felt by those who enjoy their dramas... [read full story]
