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Alarm für Cobra 11: a year ago

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:50:12 +1300

Go back one year and this was how Tom Beck was promoted in his first season of Alarm für Cobra 11: die Autobahnpolizei. There were a few episodes I didn’t see, judging by this RTL promo.

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This week on Alarm für Cobra 11: die Autobahnpolizei

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:14:21 +1300

Now that I’ve figured out how to watch these on the RTL site, I am very much looking forward to this week’s instalment of Alarm für Cobra 11: die Autobahnpolizei.

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More from the new series of Alarm für Cobra 11

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:58:15 +1200

Looks like I finally got in to compose on Vox after an hour. I’ve tried proxy servers, and the site is slow through there, too. The latest series, starting next week, of Alarm für Cobra 11: die Autobahnpolizei looks really good. First up is a c...

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Sam’s a cop who had an accident and woke up in 1977

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:30:53 +1200

Remember this scene? It’s Quin Gallardo and Samuel Santos figuring out who’s behind the kidnappings in the first episode of La chica de ayer—Spanish Life on Mars. Seems the show is doing very well in Spain with this Antena 3 TVC:

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The 1980s are back, and it’s criminal

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:38:17 +1200

I posted this last week but didn’t do a blog entry: a promo for the second series of Ashes to Ashes, which begins on the 21st at 9 p.m. on BBC One. It’s rather well made (it’s not from clips of the show, but especially filmed), and I didn’t recogn...

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Was the call from Hyde? (That’s Hyde Park, NY)

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:31:58 +1300

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 soun...

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‘KITT happens’

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:10:05 +1200

Life on Mars isn’t the only show that has had a producer change and rejig Stateside. Knight Rider, shown as a telemovie earlier in 2008, has gone through many changes, though Justin Bruening and Val Kilmer remain. The rest of the telemovie, I have...

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How ABC really promoted itself in the early 1970s

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:55:28 +1200

For those who saw my earlier post on the ABC retro-style promo—and the discussion that it wasn’t that genuine—here’s what a 1972 promo for the network really looked like. Gotta dig that slitscan technique—no computers doing these effects then!...

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ABC goes old school for US Life on Mars

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:55:20 +1200

Looks like ABC is getting into the retro theme with this 15-second promotion for the American Life on Mars. OK, so the typography is meant to be reminiscent of the 1970s but it looks more modern (I seem to remember Peignot was used a lot then o...

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With mild green Fairy Liquid

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:54:59 +1200

I hope Kiwi Lifers seeing the ninth episode of Life on Mars tonight for the first time enjoyed it. I did watch it again—yes, with the ads—and I didn’t mind the repeat, even if I could have chucked on the DVD. The acting was superb on every count, ...

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