Life on Mars

My most recent Comic Strip review brought me a recommendation for a program called Life on Mars. I took a look and found that the original British version will be starting on BBCAmerica late next month (an American version is in the pipeline as well).

To put icing on the experience, Life on Mars will apparently be the cornerstone of what they are calling the "Flashbacktion" programming block, which looks like it will include The Avengers and The Professionals at the very least.

And visitors to the BBCAmerica site should not miss their in-house blog, Anglophenia. It is odd and sort of fascinating, particularly in that it is able to maintain three tones at once:

1. "If you have never been to England, here's all the interesting little things that will make you want to come visit"
2. "If you are from England but have been abroad for a while, here's what you've been missing. Particularly if it was in The Sun."
3. "I want to shag my television set."