far be it from me...to suggest how the BBC might handle 'news from mars'....but let me just say this:

.... what's preventing you lot, from going the whole hog, eh? ....because it is already a fiction...and so why not make it more interesting in terms of presentation and style etc?


http://www.freakingnews.com/News-in-Pictures-September-28-October-4-Pictures--4950-0.asp


for example, here we have both 'water' as well as 'life', on mars...