The New York-set police drama Life on Mars isn't being renewed for a second season, multiple sources told EW.com.

U.S. actress Whoopi Goldberg has agreed to be a guest star on the new 1970s-set cop drama "Life on Mars," ABC said Monday. Goldberg, who won an Oscar for her work in the movie "Ghost," is now the moderator on the TV talk show "The View." She will play Disc Jockey Brother Lovebutter in the Nov.

By Guy Adams Life on Mars is the latest in a spate of British programmes to cross the Atlantic - and it has gone down a storm, reports Guy Adams The cars are bigger.

In America, of course, 16 episodes isn't even an entire season. So obviously, there'll be some busking when it comes to explaining why Sam has become an unwilling time traveler. In the meantime, he must make sense of the culture shock of '70 s mores. Police brutality is a casual pastime.

By Mike Hughes Sam Tyler really isn't having a good day. For one thing, he's a cop in a city with lots of crooks. For another, he's quite sure the year is 2008. Everyone and everything else says it's 1973. That's the setup for "Life on Mars," ABC's first (and only) new scripted show this fall.