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November 7, 2009 - 1973 was a great year. Well, maybe not for Richard Nixon. But there was �American Graffiti,� �Day For Night� and �The Exorcist� at the movies, George Steinbrenner bought the Yankees, more people watched Elvis in concert from ...

Gemma Watters, Production Assistant . This week, on Weekend Edition Saturday, you can hear a highly entertaining conversation with Host Scott Simon and British actor Philip Glenister about his role as Detective Gene Hunt on the hit television show Life on Mars - the UK version.

The premiere of ABC's "V" -- and TV's mostly woeful track record for updating beloved TV series -- has us taking a closer look this week at "classic" TV series that just might be able to make a comeback, if done correctly.

FORMER Big Brother producer Lucy Buck from Rotherfield has founded a new online charity.

Sam goes into a tunnel and wakes up in a hospital. Judge Jim Thomas wonders what Freud would have said.

A GROWING swine flu scare is throwing Strictly Come Dancing into chaos. PLUCKY Mike Perham sailed his tiny yacht through the gale-lashed Southern Ocean on his record-breaking round- the-world solo cruise.

What's the worst part about falling in love with a British television series? You've got to wait way too long for the show to hit DVD in the US.

The Royal & Derngate theatre has hosted the European premiere of a recently re-discovered Tennessee Williams play.

Recommended The Show: Often when hit British TV shows are brought to the US , they fail miserably and deserve to.

For Rachelle Lefevre, it all started one fateful day while waitressing at the Westmount sushi hotspot Kaizen.

On this occasion we take a look at the opening episode of the US version of Life on Mars entitled Out Here in the Fields .

The original version of Life On Mars revolved around a very strong idea, and fortunately the relocation from bleak Blighty to the sunny States hasn't caused the central premise to be lost in translation.

TV on DVD reviews: 'JONAS,' 'Ally McBeal' and 'Life on Mars' Submitted by SHNS on Fri, 10/09/2009 - 12:49 "JONAS: Rockin' The House" 2-1/2 stars -- Average While it's not unusual to see DVDs of TV series, Disney Studios Home Entertainment is wasting no time in issuing "JONAS: Rockin' the House" , featuring six episodes of a series that only ...

OWLS HEAD : Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs . Not only a fine-looking, tuneful animated feature, but groundbreaking in so many ways -- it was the first full-length animated feature, at a time when most industry people thought Walt Disney was crazy to make it -- the film gets the added resolution of Blu-ray to make it even more captivating for ...

WHO do you get to follow Philip Glenister as the macho, sexist, hard-drinking 70s cop Gene Hunt? The people behind the new US version of hit show Life On Mars asked themselves the same question and all they could come up with was a "Harvey Keitel type". Then someone had the bright idea of asking the tough guy's tough guy himself - and he shocked ...

Life on Mars: The Complete Series DVD Review Posted by Joseph Lee on 10.07.2009 A show that could have been great, but settled on being decent.

HE'S the king of the hilarious one-liner, and now you can impress your friends down the pub with some of DCI Gene Hunt's wit and wisdom, thanks to a new book.

Life on Mars: - The Complete Series brings all 17 episodes of this sci-fi crime drama to DVD.

They've been dating for a year and a half, but David Tennant and Georgia Moffett are keeping their romance alive with regular nights out.

Here are some of the latest TV shows to land on DVD, led by the debut of a 1960s sitcom with Patty Duke in two roles.