{"id":2509,"date":"2020-05-28T09:13:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T09:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/?p=2509"},"modified":"2020-05-28T09:14:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T09:14:16","slug":"original-series-discussed-in-guardian-article-on-survivors-remake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/2020\/05\/28\/original-series-discussed-in-guardian-article-on-survivors-remake\/","title":{"rendered":"Original series discussed in Guardian article on Survivors remake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cI COULDN’T WATCH that first season again. It\u2019s too harrowing,\u201d says Adrian Hodges of the remake of Survivors <\/em>shown on BBC One in 2008. \u201cIt\u2019s so close to what we\u2019re going through now.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an interview in the Guardian<\/em>, with genre journalist Steve O’Brien, Hodges looks back at the reception and impact of his remake of Terry Nation’s classic 1970s’ original tale of post-apocalyptic survival. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Illustrated with one of the familiar publicity shots of the original three series’ leads from third episode Gone Away<\/strong>, a short section of the article compares the revival with the original. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In doing so, O’Brien only commits three of the regular journalistic faux pas <\/em>documented in How to annoy a Survivors<\/em> fan<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When it’s suggested that, in depicting the impact of a global pandemic on screen more than ten years in advance of its real-world arrival, Hodges should be seen as a “prophet”, he disagrees. “I don\u2019t think I am,” Hodges tells O’Brien. “It’s Terry Nation who should be called that.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve O’Brien. 2020. “‘I couldn’t watch it now’: Survivors<\/em> was the pandemic drama years ahead of its time”, Guardian<\/em>, 26 May. https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2020\/may\/26\/i-couldnt-watch-it-now-survivors-was-the-pandemic-drama-years-ahead-of-its-time<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI COULDN’T WATCH that first season again. It\u2019s too harrowing,\u201d says Adrian Hodges of the remake of Survivors shown on BBC One in 2008. \u201cIt\u2019s so close to what we\u2019re going through now.\u201d In an interview in the Guardian, with genre journalist Steve O’Brien, Hodges looks back at the reception and impact of his remake … Continue reading “Original series discussed in Guardian article on Survivors remake”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[14,16,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-coverage","category-on-tv","category-post-apocalyptic-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9n8B4-Et","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\/2509","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2509"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2515,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions\/2515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}