ABC's LIFE ON MARS won't return for a second season. The network has decided not to renew the series starring Jason O'Mara as 2008 Detective Sam Tyler working as a cop in 1973 New York.The series, from 20th TV and ABC Studios, will complete its 17-episode freshman series order with the season finale written as a series finale that will wrap the loose story ends, explain how Tyler got transported back in time and (maybe) bring him back to his own time.
LIFE ON MARS enjoyed strong support from ABC brass and was slotted in some of the network's premiere slots, Thursday 10 p.m. after GREY'S ANATOMY and Wednesday 10 p.m. after LOST.
The show, shot in New York, featured a number of local soap stars including Grant Aleksander, Elizabeth Hubbard, Jennifer Ferrin and several others.
not so sure about that "strong support from ABC brass."
ReplyDeleteback in november, seven shows in, the buzz building, a powerful episode that ends with a head-spinning twist. and what does ABC do? puts the show on hiatus until the end of january. and when the show returns, the episode they show has nothing to do with the cliff-hanger.
ABC's "logic," according to a TWoP poster, "Due to being after Lost now, they wanted to pick an episode that someone could understand without having seen any others, so the cliffhanger has to wait until next week."