Posted AT 10:18 PM EST on 08/10/08
Two Brit imports make troubled transfer across the pond
It's a packed night of mainly imported shows. If you liked the original versions, brace yourselves.
Life on Mars (ABC, Global, 10 p.m.) is the much-anticipated, glamour-pick new show tonight. Based on the hit BBC series about a London cop who somehow winds up back in the seventies, it has had a troubled transfer to a U.S. network. David E. Kelley (
Ally McBeal, Boston Legal) was on board first to turn it into an American-set, ABC drama.
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