Life on Mars is the latest in a spate of British programmes to cross the Atlantic – and it has gone down a storm, reports Guy Adams Friday, 10 October 2008 The cars are bigger. New York looks even meaner than the squalid-yet-homely Manchester where DCI Sam Tyler first woke up after being mysteriously transported back to 1973. But the sideburns have stayed more or less the same. America got its first taste of Life on Mars last night, as the BBC's nostalgic cop show became the latest British TV hit to be re-modelled for a transatlantic audience, transporting viewers to Manhattan's tough East Village at the time when hair was long, lapels were wide, and police brutality came as standard. The show's heavily-advertised premiere marked one of the biggest new drama launches of the autumn season. In addition to a prime-time slot on...
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