Time travel cop show Life on Mars will return for a third and final series — 13 years after it last aired
TIME travel cop show Life on Mars is to return for a third and final series — 13 years after it last aired.
Politically incorrect DCI Gene Hunt — The Guv — and sidekick from the future DI Sam Tyler will be back after the writers devised a new storyline.
It will see brutal but honest Cortina-driving Hunt, played by Philip Glenister, 57, and oppo, John Simm, 49, fighting crime in the 1970s and 1980s.
The first two series were set in Manchester where 21st century cop Tyler woke up in 1973 after being hit by a car.
It spawned Ashes to Ashes, with Keeley Hawes, 44, and Glenister set in 1980s London.
The third Life on Mars will take place in both cities.
Co-creator Matthew Graham said: “We’d never make another Mars unless we really had something to say and could push the envelope all over again.
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“There are bad things and there are monsters. These things are real.
“But to get to you they have to get through The Guv. And The Guv is putting his driving gloves on.”
The BBC has yet to confirm the new series.
Co-creator Ashley Pharoah said a former revival idea was rejected on cost grounds.
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