Previously, we learned that ABC is moving its British import Life on Mars to Wednesday at 10pm come mid-season  to follow the returning Lost (and Pushing Daisies?).  While shifting schedules mid-season have annoyed fans in the past, this move had sunk well with fans as Wednesday will now be a sci-fi block and Grey's Anatomy will be paired off with its spin-off Private Practice during Thursdays.  The two line-ups ideally attract the same demographic, making each more compatible with each other, making the lead-ins work better for their lead-outs.

On the last episode of Life on Mars, a racial fight erupted between the African American and Puerto Ricans when a young African American girl was found dead.  Meanwhile, Sam was assigned to the case and thought about his mentor in 2008 in order to get an edge on the case.  That episode also had the likes of special guest star Whoopi Goldberg as Brother Lovebutter.

Tonight on the time travel-themed series, Sam Tyler encounters a terrifying hostage situation, which he has a hard time divorcing from his own strange circumstances.  To make matters more complicated, he gets a phone call from what seems to be his mother's voice in 2008 begging him to wake up.  All the while, he and the rest of the squad are ordered to diffuse a potentially explosive face-off with a crazed gunman, who is out to force a doctor to reverse a dangerous operation on the renegade's brother.

Meanwhile, Sam, Ray, Annie and Lt. Hunt are all within the madman's target.  Yet as Sam and the rest of the gang attempt to resolve the confrontation, he finally realizes the connection between the clock ticking on the gunman's demands and potentially the end of Sam Tyler.  As it turns out, he is on the clock in a way.

Catch Life on Mars tonight 10pm on ABC.


-Glenn L. Diaz, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: ABC
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