The first series of everyone’s favourite time-travelling cop show Life on Mars is just about to hit the US. John Simm and Philip Glenister are on the promo circuit, thus prompting this little interview with SciFi Wire: I never realised Glenister was modelling Gene Hunt on Brian Clough, but there you go – you learn something new every day.

The Stage‘s TV Today blog is also generous enough to gives us a few facts about season two, including the useful hint that it’s going to be even more surreal than the first one. I guess LSD was part of the 70s… [Rob Buckley]

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