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[doyle]

BBC announces Life on Mars will end after series 2. I can't help feeling I'm somehow to blame, since I finally got around to watching it this week and have only just joined lifein1973 (though haven't posted anything about it since I'm not beyond the 'flailing with love for Sam-Gene-Annie' stage). Buffy died the season after I got into it too! It's a sign! Possibly a sign that I should stick to the likes of Xena and Hercules, with their happily closed canons where the characters forever frolic in a suspiciously New Zealand-looking Ancient Greece and Eomer from Lord of the Rings has an awful bleached perm.

ETA: Also Sam Tyler/Rose Tyler = crossover time travelling gigantic daddy issues OTP, yo.

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[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Horrible as it's likely to be, I'm really interested in seeing how different it is: I keep thinking it's bound to be more of a take on Starsky and Hutch than The Sweeney, and I'm curious how it'll turn out.

It's driving me mad trying to remember the ads from the 90s that parodied 70s cop shows, especially the one with a very Gene-ish guv and a younger officer involved in a car chase ("Please stop shouting, sir." "I CAN'T!")

[redscharlach.livejournal.com]

It's driving me mad trying to remember the ads from the 90s that parodied 70s cop shows, especially the one with a very Gene-ish guv and a younger officer involved in a car chase

Ah, that was the ad for the Nissan Almera. Phil Cornwell off Dead Ringers played the Guv character. See here (http://www.missingimages.com/thesweeney/thefts/thefts.html) for details...