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It's payday. Always a good thing.
I have back to back meetings later this afternoon with almost the same groups of people, one meeting is a bit more technical and one is a status update meeting. Attendees to the first one are bringing me tea. :)
Ugly Betty on tonight and the debut of US Life on Mars. Looking forward to that. Am hopeful that it will be much improved over the initial dismal and rather flat pilot. I know it will be different from the UK version but i'm ready for that. So many US remakes of UK shows are bad (and, to be fair, vice versa). I suppose producers feel if something was a huge hit in one country, they could remake it with their own actors. People that haven't seen the excellent original series wouldn't know the difference and the percentage of people that were able to watch both is pretty small, even in this day and age of downloading. What annoys me sometimes is when they use almost the exact same pilot script, even down to almost the same dialogue other than changing some cultural references. Now, i realize, for a show like Life on Mars, you're going to have to use some of the same to establish the premise. If they end up using the same scripts for the whole series, i'm just going to be bored but i don't think they will. Mainly because, in LOM case, the UK season was just 8 or 9 episodes and the US one will be at least 13, probably closer to 20. That might also end up dragging it out too long, too. We'll see. I'm going to give it a fair chance since they've recast and relocated it. And i'm going to be open minded about Harvey Keitel being about twice the age of Philip Glenister as Gene Hunt because HK is a very good actor.

Sometimes an actor is so good and so famous, that the role becomes more about the actor than the role. Like DeNiro. Now, it's never a character, it's DeNiro playing a character. Same with Meryl Streep. Harvey, while quite famous, doesn't have as iconic a face and it's still about the character that he becomes. I'm a bit hesitant about Jason O'Mara who plays Sam Tyler. He could possibly be the Weakest Link but i'm basing that on the other pilot and he didn't have any chemistry with anyone and ...well... none of them did really.

Don't touch that dial.

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Happy Birthday to medusa. Have a fab day!!

So how was Life on Mars? Well... better than the first pilot. Harvey was great. His first scene... with the fan...? perfect touch. A bit "in your face" with the World Trade Center views but I suppose if it's taking place in New York, you'd have to do that in part to establish the time shift. You had to know it was coming. They used the same pilot plot again, so that kind of took away from it a bit because i knew what was going to happen. I don't see the point of having Lisa Bonet in it, since by rights, she shouldn't be in it again unless they're going to add flashbacks. I'm still reserving judgement because i want to watch a few more episodes.