It’s not often that an Americanized version of a British television import gets high marks from the people who created it in the first place, but Ashley Pharoah says he loves what ABC has done with his show “Life On Mars” since David E. Kelley left after the original pilot. “We’re really very proud of it,” Pharoah told The Hollywood Reporter while visiting the show’s New York set. “I think it’s marvelous.” Pharoah co-created the series for BBC, which starred John Simm, who would later go on to play The Master in “Doctor Who.” The original was a short-term series which ended with Simm’s Sam Tyler discovering his trip to the 1970s was a result of a coma. The American series, which stars Jason O’Mara, has already moved in a different direction, and that’s perfectly OK for Pharoah. …