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Apr 2, 2009 · We interrupt our regularly scheduled Thursday discussion of “Lost” to take one last look at ABC’s other crazy time-travel series, “Life on Mars,” which broadcast its final episode on Wednesday...
- “The Wrong Network at The Wrong Time”
- “That’s Fucking Insane, That’S Fucking Awesome”
- Their Original Ending For The Pilot
- “We Got An Answer We Didn’T Want”
- “There Has to Be Some Closure”
Rosenberg:Steve McPherson at ABC was obsessed with [“Life on Mars”]. They had shot a pilot with as good an auspice as you can get in television: David E. Kelley wrote it, Tommy Schlamme directed it, and Jason O’Mara starred in it. We were vaguely aware of the BBC original. McPherson brought us in, he’s like, “You guys want to take this over?” So we...
Rosenberg:The most mission-critical moment was in the beginning. Because, we’d all heard about “Lost” [but] they had no idea that it was going to become a cultural phenomenon. So, they hadn’t really figured out everything, which, of course, is why some people remain dissatisfied with the finale, because it didn’t answer all the questions. And, we w...
Rosenberg:Sam is walking through New York, he realizes he’s trapped in time. It’s night time, and he walks out to the Brooklyn Bridge, and he’s standing there and he’s thinking about throwing himself off, because maybe that will wake himself up and he can wake up in his hospital bed — because he thinks he’s in a coma. And, he’s standing there, and ...
Appelbaum:[ABC] thought it premiered very well. They were happy with it, but they would have been very happy I think, if it were more of a 1970s cop show — if it was “NYPD Blue” set in the ’70s, if the case of the week thing took over a little bit more. They were ultimately supportive of all of it, but that was the only tug and pull. But, as the se...
Appelbaum:I think if we didn’t have an ending, [“Life on Mars”] would’ve been forgotten. We got more press about the finale than we ever got as the show was running. O’Mara:All of us, including Harvey, thought it was a really creative and fun ending to the series. So we were all on board with that, which might be hard to believe to some fans, becau...
Apr 11, 2007 · In the final episode of Life on Mars, Sam starts to believe his nightmare is almost over: he’s in a coma in the future, and DCI Gene Hunt is the ‘tumour’ in his brain. If he can get rid of Hunt,...
Apr 10, 2007 · Sam Tyler's last adventure is brought to you in glorious detail via our recap of the final episode's events. Sam hears, via Jimmy Savile on the radio, that he has a tumour on his brain that...
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Apr 1, 2019 · How that ending came to be, in all its insane glory, is a story best told by those involved: Appelbaum, fellow executive producer , director Michael Katleman, and series star Jason O’Mara ...
Life on Mars is a British television series broadcast on BBC One between 9 January 2006 and 10 April 2007.
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Apr 5, 2009 · A short clip from the ABC version of 'Life on Mars' finale where Sam Tyler wonders "Why does everything come back to David Bowie?" ...more.
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