Series one – Page 2 – Survivors: A World Away

Survivors ‘nearly pointless’ reveals BBC quiz

A recent repeat showing of an episode of the quiz game Pointless Celebrities (Series 6: Episode 5, 12 April 2014) included a question challenging the contestants to identify the least recognised image from a number of 1970s’ TV shows. The selection included a publicity still from Survivors taken during the studio recording session of Gone Away.

None of the teams recognised the image from Survivors, which turned out to be a ‘nearly pointless’ answer – being recognised by only one of the panel of the general public surveyed by the programme. The spread of responses was as follows:

87 – Porridge
61 – Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em
48 – Upstairs, Downstairs
18 – Abigail’s Party
1 – Survivors

The question on 1970s’ TV shows occurs 31ms into the episode, which can be viewed on the BBC iPlayer service (within the UK) until 21 January 2015.

Many thanks to Adrian H for providing this information

New Big Finish Survivors audio adventure interviews

New interviews with John Banks (Daniel Connor), Sinead Keenan (Suzie Edwards), Adrian Lukis (James Gillison), Chase Masterson (Maddie Price), and San Shella (Sayed) have been added to the Survivors: A World Away Big Finish mini-site.

These latest interviews join those with producer David Richardson, director Ken Bentley, script editor and writer Matt Fitton and writers Jonathan Morris and Andrew Smith.

There are also reviews of all four episodes in the first series. More interviews with cast and crew will be added soon!

Big Finish release series one of new Survivors audio dramas

Audio drama specialists Big Finish have today (5 June 2014) released series one of their new Survivors audio adventures set in the time of place of Terry Nation’s original TV drama. Big Finish say:

WE ARE IMMENSELY proud to announce the release of Terry Nation’s Survivors – Series 1.

The original TV series ran from 1975 to 1977, and portrayed the outbreak of a plague that wipes out most of the world’s population, and told the story of the few people who survived…

Our original audio series begins again with the plague outbreak, introducing new characters before running parallel with that TV show, as Lucy Fleming (Jenny) and Ian McCulloch (Greg) reprise their roles. Carolyn Seymour (Abby Grant) also has a cameo role, and will appear in a larger capacity in Series 2.

It begins with just a few people falling ill. Another flu virus that spreads around the globe. And then the reports begin that people are dying…

When most of the world’s population is wiped out, a handful of survivors are left to pick up the pieces.

Cities become graveyards. Technology becomes largely obsolete. Mankind must start again…

Series one of the new Survivors audio adventures is available to buy (in CD format or by digital download) from the Big Finish web site. Series two will be released in June 2015.

New audio adventure Survivors cast Tweet as recording begins

As recording on the first series of the new Survivors adventures from Big Finish got underway last week, cast members including John Banks and Terry Molloy took to Twitter to comment:

John Banks - Tweets about Big Finish Survivors recording — John Banks – Tweets about Big Finish Survivors recording

Terry Molloy - Tweets about Big Finish Survivors recording — Terry Molloy – Tweets about Big Finish Survivors recording

Sinead Keenan is Susie Edwards in new Big Finish Survivors audio

Audio drama production company Big Finish have announced that Sinead Keenan (Being Human, London Irish will be appearing in the forthcoming first series of Survivors audio adventures in the role of Susie Edwards.

Sinead Keenan is Susie Edwards, who finds that the future for humanity is dark and terrifying…