3 posts tagged “hyde park”

Not many clues about the eighth US episode of Life on Mars in the latest promotion, tied in with the new Lost. I am wondering who has called Sam at an address he has more or less concocted himself at the end of the seventh episode, because it sounds more sinister than the Hyde 2612 call at the beginning of the original’s second series.

ABC has made a ‘Starter Kit’ to introduce people to Life on Mars, beginning this Thursday. The clip below shows many scenes familiar to fans of the original, and compared with the Kelley effort, it looks very good. Gene Hunt’s most (in)famous line gets changed by one word, but Appelbaum and Nemec, the new producers, seem to have hit the formula correctly. Importantly, there appears to be social commentary hidden within the show, which the Kelley pilot lacked.
   British fans may take this to be an equivalent to the old BBC site, which is still up. Just that broadband has moved on a bit since the original series’ début in 2006.

These ads are not new, and American viewers will have already seen them. They are interesting to me because it shows this new première has taken on a lot more of the original version than David E. Kelley’s rejected pilot for Life on Mars. The new American lines are actually quite funny, with references to Sam’s ‘cell’ and Gene’s ‘year of the fist’. According to Chris, Sam has transferred to the 125th Precinct from ‘Hyde’—presumably Hyde Park, New York, near Poughkeepsie (which is where the new Nelson is from). We also see a scene with Lisa Bonet as Maya in one of the spots.