It’s back to earth again as ABC’s “Life on Mars” will not return for a second season.

 

The television network has decided not to rekindle the time-travel show, which stars Jason O’Mara as a 2008 detective who mysteriously ends up working as a cop in 1973’s New York.

 

The series is expected to complete its 17-episode first-season order with an episode conceived as a series finale that concludes the story, explains how detective Sam Tyler traveled in the past and maybe brings him back to present time.

 

Filmed in New York, the show pride itself on one of the most impressive acting groups on television with Jason O’Mara, Harvey Keitel, Michael Imperioli and Gretchen Mol.

 

“Life on Mars” benefited from the network’s support and was aired in some of ABC’s best schedule slots: Thursday at 10 p.m., following medical drama “Grey’s Anatomy,” and Wednesday at 10 p.m., after “Lost.”

 

Nevertheless, the show, based on the eponymous BBC British series, failed to draw viewers, since many people considered it more appropriate as a limited series, as it aired in the United Kingdom.

 

Actor Jason O’Mara is the only cast member who also played in the BBC series. In ABC’s remake of the show, Sam Tyler, who is on the trail of a serial killer who abducted his cop girlfriend Maya (Lisa Bonet), gets hit by a car while Davie Bowie is singing his well-known hit “Life on Mars” and wakes up decades earlier. He soon finds out he has been transported to 1973 and tries to find his way home while helping past-day cops solve numerous crimes.