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Jack Yan posted Thirty years ago, could you imagine a Toyota Starlet taxi? | 8 hours ago
When I was a kid, a cabbie living on Colombo Street had a Ford Cortina Mk II for his or her work. This was a far smaller car than the usual Holden Belmonts and Kingswoods and Ford Falcons that formed over 95 per cent of the taxi fleet in Wellington. I don’t know if (s)he got much business as part...
Jack Yan posted US Life on Mars: another review emerges | Yesterday
Jace at Televisionary has seen the US Life on Mars and says it still falls short of the original (especially Jason O’Mara versus John Simm in the role of Sam Tyler), but his comments are largely positive. He does have a complaint that the final scene from the first episode of the UK one is not in...
Jack Yan posted US Life on Mars publicity shots revealed from first episode | Sep 20, 2008
Spoiler TV has some more publicity shots from the US Life on Mars, and here we can see some of the effort that has gone in to making the American version reasonably faithful to the British one. I have only chosen five for commentary; Spoiler TV has far more. Haven’t seen Denise Huxtable for a...
Jack Yan posted More US Life on Mars footage, in the new ad | Sep 19, 2008
It’s the new US Life on Mars commercial! (FDA warning: contains 90 per cent new ingredients.) There’s new footage of Sam being hit by a car, this time in New York, and the look certainly is closer to the original, albeit Americanized. I am actually more encouraged by this than the first trailer...
