Returning: Life on Mars

The ABC will air the second series of Life on Mars next month.

The UK drama will air from 8:30pm Thursday February 14.

John Simm returns for another stint at being trapped in 1973 for this lively UK cop show. He is again surrounded by lots of brown suits and politically-incorrect accomplices.

The show has been such a hit that the US spin-off starring Irish actor Jason O’Mara is being readied by acclaimed writer David E. Kelley. But the writer’s strike again has another show with an unclear future.

Press Release:

Trapped in 1973, all Sam Tyler (John Simm) wanted to do was to get home. But where and when would that home be? As Life on Mars comes to a thrilling conclusion in this second series, is it time for Sam to finally go back to the future?

Despite eerie visions that suggest a tantalising proximity to 2007, DI Sam Tyler once again wakes up to find himself very much amongst the pale brown hues of the technologically prehistoric, politically incorrect world of seventies Manchester. And, what’s more, he’s got a murder to solve.

Sam encounters the young incarnation of Tony Crane (Marc Warren), a nasty villain he put away in 2006. He realises he is faced with the chance every copper dreams about: stopping the killer before he kills.

Gambling everything on ensuring the man is sent down, Sam’s flagrant disregard for procedure stuns his colleagues in CID.

But they can’t appreciate what Sam is starting to fear – that, since his car accident in 2006, the villain has been released and has found his way to his hospital bedside where he is exacting his revenge on Sam’s vulnerable body.

Still desperate to discover how he got to 1973, why he remains there and how he may return to the present day, Sam has to race against the clock to capture a killer who is trying to murder him in the future.

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