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You may have heard something about that TV show Life on Mars. Based on the BBC show, it tells the story of present-day NYPD Detective Sam Tyler (Jason O'Mara) who wakes up in 1973 after a car accident and has to adapt to 1970s policing techniques, as exemplified by Harvey Keitel. To promote tonight's premiere of the series, The Daily News has dug up a bunch of stories from 1973 is hosting them on a website mocked up to look like an old, faded copy of the paper.

                

On a few blocks of Keap Street in Williamsburg yesterday it was 1973. No it wasn’t a highly localized distortion of the space time continuum, but the US version of Life on Mars filming.

Since the end of The Sopranos, actor Michael Imperioli has kept busy running his Off Broadway theater Studio Dante and working on his directorial debut, an indie feature called The Hungry Ghosts, which he also wrote. Now he’ll be joining the cast of ABC sci-fi detective series Life on Mars, which is adapted from a BBC show of the same name. Despite rumors of ABC pulling the plug, production has been moved to New York from L.A., with Imperioli playing Detective Ray Carling, a cop mysteriously transplanted from the present into 1972. The series is scheduled to premiere this fall.

A look at some of this week's noteworthy television: Spike TV's Video Game Awards 2007 (Sunday, 9:00 p.m., Spike TV) It is the fifth annual outing for this awards show for video games. Live From Lincoln Center: Red Hot Holiday Stomp (Monday, 8:00 p.m., WNET 13) Jazz at Lincoln Center is highlighted with this special hosted by Glenn Close. There will be a program of holiday music and jazz, plus it also features the broadcast...