'Life on Mars' premieres on Oct. 9, 2008; will show Thursdays on ABC at 10 p.m. after 'Grey's Anatomy'

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After a lot of shake-ups, the US version of the original British series Life on Mars will debut tonight on ABC at 10pm. If time travel is your thing, it comes right after Grey’s Anatomy on Thursdays.

Life on Mars is about a detective who finds himself stuck in the early 1970s and thus has to go about his modern professional life absent the help of thirty or so years of technology and forensic science.

The series had a rough transfer to a US network after the first pilot by Ally McBeal’s David Kelley was scraped and the whole thing had to be redone from scratch. ABC has announced that it now has ABC drama October Road producers Josh Appelbaum, Andre Namec, Scott Rosenberg at the helm.

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