Meaney to star in US 'Life On Mars'

Colm Meaney has been in final talks to star in the pilot episode for the US version of hit BBC show Life On Mars.

The Dublin actor would take on the part of Detective Hunt, the head of the homicide unit in the seventies, which was played by Philip Glenister in the original.

Meaney would star opposite fellow Irish actor Jason O'Mara, who has signed up to take on John Simm's character Sam Tyler, the modern-day detective who finds himself in 1972.

The American pilot will show Tyler coming across a serial killer who may have been involved with the abduction of his present day girlfriend.