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Life on Mars won’t have one other sequel collection in spite of everything. The creators of the UK collection have introduced that the deliberate spin-off, titled Lazarus, won’t be occurring, per Deadline.
The unique Life on Mars collection aired for 2 seasons on BBC One between 2006 and 2007. Starring John Simm, Philip Glenister, Liz White, Dean Andrews, and Marshall Lancaster, the sci-fi collection follows a cop (Simm) from 2006 who finds himself thrown again in time to Seventies Manchester.
A spin-off collection titled Ashes to Ashes, that includes Keeley Hawes as a police officer who’s shot in 2008 and wakes up in 1981, ran for 3 seasons within the UK. ABC ran its personal model of Life on Mars starring Jason O’Mara and Harvey Keitel. It was cancelled after one season however viewers nonetheless obtained an ending, one which differed from the UK collection.
Life on Mars co-creator Matthew Graham introduced plans for the Lazarus collection in 2020. Set in Manchester and London in the course of the Seventies and Nineteen Eighties, the collection was anticipated to run for 4 or 5 episodes. Simm and Glenister would have reprised their roles from the unique collection.
It’s with a heavy coronary heart that the creators of #LifeOnMars have confirmed that the extremely anticipated revival present, #Lazarus, will now not be shifting ahead.
Many due to Matthew Graham & Ashley Pharoah for these previous 3 years in your efforts to reunite Sam Tyler & Gene Hunt https://t.co/qIQp4d0pF5 pic.twitter.com/jYnOBccyhk
— … #Lazarus (@LifeOnMars_tv) June 3, 2023
Viewers might nonetheless see what the creators of the Lazarus collection, Graham and Ashley Pharoah, had deliberate for the sequel. Pharoah teased the followers might see the content material pop up in one other format sooner or later.
Actually disappointing information however we gave it a correct crack. We’re nonetheless pondering of a strategy to both share the script with you or carry it out in one other kind. Till then…
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— Ashley Pharoah (@AJPharoah) June 3, 2023
What do you think? Have you ever watched the unique Life on Mars collection? Did you wish to see the Lazarus sequel collection?
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