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I'll probably write some big thing later on about it but for now let me just state for the record that I thought the new American adaptation of Life on Mars, which was on last night at 10:00, completely and utterly failed to suck.

Am very glad they scrapped the original American version (set in LA) and re-tooled the entire thing (now set in NYC) and am most glad to see that the people working on this new one have not only seen the original British series but they get it. Keitel for one clearly did his homework. I was impressed.

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I just saw the beginning of the episode. It was OK, and it was interesting how many scenes got recreated shot for shot, but I missed John Simm terribly; the guy playing Sam isn't selling the perplexity and occasional horror of his situation quite enough.

Keitel was fine, but it does change the visual dynamic to have Gene be a considerably smaller man than Sam. On reflection I don't think it's a bad change; instead of the big brawler bullying the skinny college boy, it's a terrifying older weaselly dude who can still get the better of bland Brick Rockjaw. There's something New York about that.