February 13th, 2007
The return of Life on Mars
Crushes on John Simm aside, don’t forget that Series 2 of Life on Mars starts on BBC1 tonight at 9pm. Even better, episode 2 is on directly afterwards at 10pm on BBC 4.
Link:
*Guardian blog: “There’s Still Life on Mars”
*“When Men Were Men” - (”He had a big moustache, stank of booze and fags, liked a punch-up and was an unreconstructed sexist pig. So what is it about Seventies Man that is so appealing to film and TV audiences today? John Harris investigates)
February 13th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
Yay!
There you go, names for the sprog; Gene or Genie depending on boy or girl
February 13th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
Ya I will be there watching
February 13th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
I enjoyed watching this on BBC4 recently, and will definitely be watching tonight too. Top class TV.
Have you seen the ad on Youtube?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBFxscicJA0
February 13th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
This is a great show. Just a pity I don’t have a TV.
February 13th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
I love Life on Mars and I half found myself going ‘mmmhhhh’ more times than I care to remember this evening.
And you get my vote too
February 13th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
I don’t have BBC4, otherwise I’d be watching part 2 right now! Sob.
Episode one was pretty good though. Could he really actually be a mad ’70s copper from Hyde, as that final phone call suggested? If he is, I didn’t see that coming…
February 14th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Fence - “Twentina”, “Jermajesty” and “Eason Gleeson” are gonna take some beating.
Simon - what did you make of it?
Sharon - I posted that ad a couple of weeks ago when I got all excited about hearing Series 2 was just around the corner.
Phil - I hear you, I go through phases of being very good about TV and switching it off, but then have lapses and get addicted to utter crap.
Red Mum - yes, he’s a tasty chap, no doubt about it. The other half was grumbling as I was staring dreamily at John. Thanks for the vote.
Stellanova - Can you believe it? I fell asleep during the damn 2nd episode. That phone call was weird wasn’t it? But if he WAS a mad copper from the 70s, how would he know about Pulp, mobile phones etc? I’m stumped.
And when oh when is he going to make a move on Annie?
February 14th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
I grew up with Camberwick Green so loved the promo, even still have the album somewhere at home with the parents (along with Jim Reeves and some 40 shades of Green album which has a Beretta and a bandolier on the cover)
Only caught the latter part of the 1st episode but we can’t rule out body swapping. The Hyde copper could be in his body up the line.
February 15th, 2007 at 9:42 am
Camberwick Green was great, I loved Windy Miller. Some other ad on TV has been using it too recently but I can’t remember what it was for. T
Body-swapping eh? Hmmm, interesting. Maybe it’s just a coma and he’s imagining it all, but then how come he went back to such a specific time, especially one connected with his dad (and the day he left) and the girl in the red dress being attacked? He could also be a time-traveller?
February 15th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
He’s a Cylon!