{"id":164,"date":"2013-04-14T11:58:39","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T10:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2013-04-14T11:58:39","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T10:58:39","slug":"terry-nations-blakes-7-finally-secures-remake-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/2013\/04\/14\/terry-nations-blakes-7-finally-secures-remake-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Terry Nation’s Blake’s 7 finally secures remake treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a series of false starts stretching over more than a decade, a remake of Survivors<\/em>‘ creator Terry Nation’s science-fiction space drama Blake’s 7<\/em> (1978-81) has finally been confirmed. <\/p>\n

The BBC News<\/a> site reported (10 April 2013) that, with the licensing of the project agreed with the Nation estate, a first series of thirteen episodes had been ordered by the SyFy channel, and will be distributed by FremantleMedia International<\/a>, and produced by Georgeville TV and Marc Rosen. Initial reports indicate that the series will be written by Joe Pokaski (Heroes<\/em>, CSI<\/em>) and directed by Martin Campbell (Casino Royale<\/em>, GoldenEye<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Freemantle Media has outlined the show’s premise:<\/p>\n

\nThe year is 2136, Blake wakes up on one side of the bed. He reaches for the other side. There\u2019s nobody there. As reality sets in, this handsome ex-soldier sits up, and looks at a photo of his wife Rachel. Beautiful. Deceased. <\/p>\n

A revolutionary reinvention of the long-running BBC series made in the late 1970s, Blake\u2019s 7<\/em> tells the story of seven criminals – 6 guilty and 1 innocent – on their way to life on a prison colony in space, who together wrestle freedom from imprisonment. They acquire an alien ship which gives them a second chance at life and become the most unlikely heroes of their time.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Blake’s 7<\/em> was the show that Terry Nation created shortly after his departure from Survivors<\/em> at the end of series one. Later in his career, Nation sought to get an American network to revive Blake’s 7<\/em>, as he also (unsuccessfully) attempted to do with Survivors<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a series of false starts stretching over more than a decade, a remake of Survivors‘ creator Terry Nation’s science-fiction space drama Blake’s 7 (1978-81) has finally been confirmed. The BBC News site reported (10 April 2013) that, with the licensing of the project agreed with the Nation estate, a first series of thirteen episodes … Continue reading “Terry Nation’s Blake’s 7 finally secures remake treatment”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-tv","category-terry-nation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9n8B4-2E","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}