the second and final series of "Life on Mars" starts Tuesday, 13th February at 9pm on BBC1.

Eeeeeee!

Oops. Wrong thread.

A pilot for a US version "Life On Mars" has been ordered by ABC.

Unfortunately, it's being written and produced by David E. Kelley.

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Awesome! New Sam and Gene!

(The name "Sam" belongs on the shelf next to "Jack" and "Carter" for a while, I must say--there are far too many of them in television these days.)

He's also Sam Tyler, which puts him next to Rose Tyler and Vince Tyler (QaF UK).

My bet is that they're all cousins.

Some more genre pilots:

Pushing Daisies: Detective show/romance/fairy tale about a guy who can touch the dead and bring them back to life.

Babylon Fields: Sardonic, apocalyptic comedic drama in which the dead are resurrected and try to resume their former lives. As a result, lives are regained, families restored and old wounds are reopened

Demons: Ex-Jesuit priest/psychologist performs exorcisms, fighting the demons in his life and the lives of others

Twilight (presentation) Private investigator/vampire struggles with the repercussions of immortality, vampire adversaries and his love for a mortal

The Bionic Woman: Re-imagination of the 1970s series with focus on women's place in the world today

Chuck: Unlikely hero undertakes missions every week while still working at the "Geek Squad"; a comedic Jason Bourne

Journeyman: Epic fantasy about a man who travels back in time to alter and fix the lives of people in trouble, but by recalibrating the past, he sometimes alters the future

New Amsterdam: Man (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) cursed with immortality works as a New York homicide detective

Sarah Connor Chronicles: Based on the characters from the "Terminator" franchise, it follows Connor (Lena Headey) and her son John (Thomas Dekker) in present-day Los Angeles as they fight attackers from the future in a battle for survival of the human race

Them: Centers on an extraterrestrial sleeper cell that has infiltrated the human race. The cell's mission is compromised when its members begin to express human emotions. Based on the graphic novel

Reaper: Comedic drama about a 21-year-old slacker who becomes the devil's bounty hunter, retrieving souls escaped from hell

Also, Famke Janssen and Janeane Garofalo have cop and lawyer show pilots.

The name "Sam" belongs on the shelf next to "Jack" and "Carter" for a while, I must say--there are far too many of them in television these days.

Tell me about it. We have:

Sam Tyler
Sam(antha) Carter
Sam Winchester
Samantha Spade (WaT)

Hmm. I thought I knew more fannish Sams than that.

Of course, then there are Daniel/Dan/Dannys. Stargate SG-1 has the trifecta.

I've heard rumblings about Series 2 of LoM -- it's supposed to end in a cliffhanger, followed by a special hour or two that provide resolution. Can't wait!

I've been waiting for the S1 DVDs to be released in region 1 for a while, but I haven't heard anything about it. According to people who'd watched the region 2 DVDs, they had to substitute some of the songs because of royalty issues, which is a crashing shame. Among the apparent casualties is Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses" in that scene where Sam and Gene find that girl's body by the river and the conversation afterward, which... wow, even the *thought* of watching that scene with another song in the background pains me.

I hate it when they have to swtich songs on DVD releases. One would think that when the producers negotiate to use a song on an episode, they'd negotiate for its use on the DVD set as well before settling on a fee. For example, think about that last scene of the latest ep of Supernatural with a different song. That little change would make that episode, like, only half as awesome.

Recently, I watched some of the S1 Joan of Arcadia episodes on DVD, and in one of my favourite bits of the entire season (the ending scene of "No Bad Guy" when Adam comes to visit Joan and they have that talk in the Girardi kitchen and he plays with the bandage on her foot and she looks at him, I mean, looks at him, with that incredible expression on her face and.... !!), they substituted some non-descript song in place of Beck's "It's All In Your Mind" and, honestly, I was so upset, I almost cried.

Anyway. Wow, did I ever go off in a tangent. So, LoM S2! Awesome.

The Bionic Woman: Re-imagination of the 1970s series with focus on women's place in the world today

This could be an interesting and thought-provoking series. Unfortunately, given the nature of network TV, it probably won't be.