In case other people (like me) missed this the first time around, here's a link to the extended trailer for series 1 Life on Mars. First aired on the BBC on Christmas Day 2005, it includes footage that appears to have been created solely for use in the trailer; at least, it was never aired in the series (and you'll understand why when you watch ( Read more... )

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I’ve been catching up with posts since my return from England and I saw a request from bowie_glam for Top!Sam stories ( Read more... )

The OTW project FanLore actually DOES have a page for Life on Mars. It is short but is a good basic start for a wiki page on the LoM fandom, but it IS just a start ( Read more... )

crack_van is a multi fandom recs community: the idea is that each month a different person takes on the task of recommending stories and the odd video in a particular fandom. Life on Mars is one of the permanent fandoms featured and there have been some fantastic recs featured: Crack Van Life on Mars tag.

You can also see the previous recs here on ( Read more... )

So...for what it's worth, here's a few tips on thinking up/working out backstory for characters. I hope it helps!

Follow the fake!cut to my LJ. And forgive me if it's no good. Been a long time since I wrote anything that wasn't fic!!

( Backstory. They've got it, you want it. )

As you may be aware, Life on Mars has a regular slot on the fan-fic reccomendations community crack_van. As we're amassing quite a lot of fic recs up there, I've taken it upon myself to make a list so that future reccers can see at a glance what has (and hasn't) been recced.

Life on Mars Crack Van Recs.

(I have just been reminded that mikes_grrl did the same with ( Read more... )

Well here it is that time of year again.  Time for Christmas parties and Christmas cheer.  So here's a little something to help celebrate Christmas in 1973 style.

( This way for 1973 Christmas cheer )

Life on Mars is now available via iTunes. More info here.

Heya!

Dean's updated his blog again! The posts do contain casting spoilers for episodes 7 and 8 though - be warned!

He'd love to hear from people, so please leave a comment if you visit.

Elf
xx

As a fic writer, I like to make my fic as accurate as possible with regard to Canon. So far, as far as I'm aware, there isn't a 'master list' of canon anywhere for LoM.

So I'm hoping this will become one!

Basically, if people can read this post and add comments with CANON that hasn't been mentioned, then I'll update this post accordingly. I just want ( Read more... )