Originality is old hat as the BBC spins off its top series - Britain - Times Online: "The next show to give audiences a sense of deja vu will be Life on Mars, which stars John Simm as Sam Tyler, a detective who is catapulted back to 1973 after a road accident.
BBC One has commissioned a sequel starring Philip Glenister, who plays hard-drinking Detective Chief Inspector Gene Hunt. Provisionally titled Ashes to Ashes, the action picks up the characters in 1981, for a series that the BBC calls 'More Miami Vice than The Sweeney'."