Just finished watching the first episode of this and I have to say it's absolutely captivating. Ordinarily I'm not one for British drama but this is arguably for me the best pilot of any new show this season.

John Simm is fantastic so far in the lead role, and the supporting cast and characters are pretty well written too. The central mystery of Simm's condition and his sense of reality is obviously going to drive the series forward and I'm glad to see that they're keeping that fairly ambiguous. I'm really looking forward to seeing where this going.

This year's a big year for British genre drama, what with another series of Dr Who, Torchwood, Life on Mars and the new ITV Patrick Stewart vehicle coming soon as well. I can't remember so much homegrown genre television for decades, it's great !! Are we seeing a renaissance of British cult ???????

I think we are seeing a renaissance James, all thanks to the success of Doctor Who last year. It made the networks over here realise that there is a market for shows like these.

I too liked this show, it's interesting, The drama is great and the little comedy touches

were hilarious. The whole temporal culture shock thing is going to w**k out really well IMO, as long as they can keep up the high quality.

I really couldn't believe that this sprang from the mind of Tony Jordan though :blink: The man behind Eastenders, coming up with something like this? There must have been a blue moon shining somewhere in the world last night :lol:

A very very promising beginning :thumbsup:

Thoroughly entertaining, captivating and funny show.
Simm is uniformly brilliant in everything he does, from 'The Lakes' to 90s comedy, 'Men of the World', to his small part in '24 Hour Party People'.
The feel of the show, asthetically and in the soundtrack was spot on.
Totally agree with CKicks about the ambiguity aspect. There really is a lot of scope for development of almost every aspect.
A great debut. Best UK detective drama since...um...Burnside... :shifty:... :lol:
With Lost and Rome finishing, great to see another great show starting on terestial.
Top class.

Nearly didn't watch this- glad I did tho, with Rome and Lost finishing I have time to watch another TV series, and I liked the first episode. I fancy the WPC. I'm sure you all wanted to know that.

I really enjoyed this as well :thumbsup: it was completely watchable and entertaining all the way through. John Simm was excellent as he nearly always is as was the rest of the cast, in particular his boss. :)

Normally when you watch a British cult/genre you have to make allowances for it in comparison to US shows in terms of writing, budget etc but like with Doctor Who I thought it stood comparison really well.

Good soundtrack as well. :)

I also read it beat Celeb BB & the Soapstar thing on ITV in the ratings so more power to it.

This was a great episode. I was disappointed at how he got to 1974, but the rest was pretty good. The joking psychiatrist made me think that it really was a dream for a while and his modern day mindset worked for the location, but didn't for much else.

That didn't take much. Soapstar Superstar was really, really bad. None of them could sing! :blink:

I gave this a shot, thought the general idea was good, going back in time to see the case happen before, but i thought it would be used to help him save Mya in the end, and i was disappointed by the ending. I might try the next one.

Glad it beat the BB and that ITV thing though.

Ems :)

I'm enjoying this new series I watched last week not sure what expect, this week episode was even better. I found the the scene on the test card girl really creeped me out :fear: I can remember seeing that when I was little. I think John Simm and Philip Glenister w**k really well togther :thumbsup: There are interview and clips etc on their website if anyone wants to check it out. click here

Episode Two was great. I loved the inclusion of 'Live and Let Die'. Classic :thumbsup:

Glenister's uber-anti-pc character is feckin superb.

Giving the 'v's' to the kids when he was in the icecream van was feckin hilarious!

Not much more to add about the second episode. Bloody marvellous :thumbsup:

Love the writing, love the acting, I really hope this sticks around for a while :thumbsup:

I'm not usually one for British dramas either but something about this intrigued me so I tuned in and I'm absolutely hooked :thumbsup: Fantastic cast with John Simm and Philip Glenister playing off each other perfectly. I love watching out for all the 70's anachronisms :thumbsup:

It's a great show and I think that the three series that the BBC want it to last for will make it a great show to remember :thumbsup:

:tear: My Sky+ failed this week and didn't record it and BBC don't appear to show a repeat of it anywhere :( Did anything of importance happen?

He met his mum.

D'oh! I'd liked to've seen that :( I wonder if it will be released on dvd :ponder:

My Sky+ failed as well, missed Due South and Prison Break (got that one last night). Must've been somesort of outage :(

Yeah, I lost Prison Break as well but managed to get it last night too :thumbsup: Hurray for repeats :lol:

It is alleged that it will be released on DVD next January. The Sky+ problem is down to a box upgrade, or so I've read :unsure:

I don't have Sky - I use the good old recordable VHS :lol:

Brilliant Life on Mars last night.
I have decided that everything about this show is superb. :thumbsup:

Couldn't agree more, fantastic :thumbsup:

Best episode I've seen yet last night :thumbsup:

Add me to the list :thumbsup: I'm gutted it's coming to the end :tear:

Isn't there going to be a new series?

Think it's been confirmed for a second series.

Not quite coming to an end yet either, there are eight episodes rather than the traditional six :thumbsup:

Yay :thumbsup: I thought my tv guide said yesterday's was 5 of 6 so I thought next week's was the finale :rolleyes: I'm a happy bunny :D

I was impressed by yesterday's episode. It was much better than the normal bog standard cop drama. Oh, and it did have a Dr Who reference :lol:

Yes...it has been confirmed for a second series!

With the ratings it's been getting every week, even the BBC couldn't deny it a second outing.

Seems the BBC were so pleased with it they commisioned a second series before the first one had even been broadcast and there's even talk of a film version.

From The Telegraph Online -

They start filming the second series in april. :)

Oh dear;

David E Kelley is also behind Boston Legal.

Taken from Digital Spy.

The thing is, that it is such a very good idea that this was bound to happen.

Yeah. You could see it coming.
I reckon a US version would be quite good though.
They'd probably just use the premise and change a lot of the actual content.

Here's the really good news for our friends over the pond though;

Good news for fans of the Gene Genie: BBC4 are repeating this, starting tonight at 10. There is a documentry about it afterwards.

Didn't get to watch this when it was on because it always seemed to clash with something else I was already following, but I rented the first dvd and watched the first two eps last night, thought it was bloody brilliant :thumbsup:

Very funny too - I think Philip Glenister was born to play that role :lol: :thumbsup:

Feeling tempted just to go and buy it now, rather than wait for Amazon to send the rest of the dvds out one by one :ponder:

Yeah he was definitely born to play a 70's copper :lol:

I was just reading some of the viewers comments on the Beeb about the first episode and found some classics...

...and finally...

Well, that's it. I'm so appalled by the BBC's lack of attention to detail that I am going to return my dvds for a refund forthwith :snooty:

:rolleyes: :lol: :lol: :lol: