Survivors survives the 70's
The BBC have announced they are (finally) going to remake cult 70's sci-fi classic Survivors, bringing the Terry Nation-created serial up to date for the late noughties.
If you're not familiar, Survivors was an excellent, if flawed drama which originally ran for three series from 1975 onwards, about the aftermath of a worldwide virus outbreak. The first episode showed most of the world being killed of by a rogue virus, with just a handful of those left - the survivors - having to adapt to the overnight loss of civilisation. Terry Nation, who wrote the first series, was also the creator of such classics as Blakes 7, and the infamous Dalek characters in Doctor Who.
I happened to rewatch some of the original recently, and in fairness it all looks incredibly dated now - quite poor production values led to a lot of wobbly sets and sometimes hammy acting - but the stories are good and the whole thing is definitely ripe for a modern day remake. I'm quite looking forward to this...
More on the news on the Beeb here, and you can find out more about the original series here.
Tim, even you said all the
Tim, even you said all the stories in the orginal series were getting repetitive and boring!
that's true, but then that
that's true, but then that was just a by product of those low, low production values I think - they made 38 episodes, and over time they did start recycling stories... the fact that terry nation walked out fairly early on didn't help! but this is where a nicely done remake could actually build on what was good about the original and actually come up with something better