ABC has officially cancelled the series Life on Mars, but will allow it to gracefully conclude with a definitive ending to the storyline. The network informed show producers it will not order additional episodes beyond the 17 in the works for this season and confirmed it won’t renew the series for next year. Production will…
Life on Mars is the successful translation of the 16-episode BBC series to America. Not every translation has worked, as noted by the cancellation this season of The Ex-List, which came from Israel. Life’s co-creator, Ashley Pharoah, told reporters in New York that he thinks this interpretation works very well. "I think it’s marvelous. We’re…
Variety reports today that David E. Kelley, creator of Ally McBeal, The Practice, and favorite among many ComicMixers, Boston Legal (among others) has hired Thomas Schlamme to direct the pilot for the American version of Life on Mars. Schlamme previously worked on Sports Night, The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and Jack…
