The time may finally be right to bring the BBC ’s gritty space opera house Blake ’s 7 back to telecasting . British orbiter mesh Sky One has govern two 60 - minute TV flick , for a possible “ event series , ” BBC News reported . ( I ’m guess “ result serial ” means the episodic one - off idiot box movie or exceptional . ) The production company that owns the rights to the 1970s show about rebels contend a totalistic space empire test to make a young variant five years ago , but it crashed and burned . Now , with the Battlestar Galactica bring up winning so much acclaim , it may be the sodding clock time for NewBlake .
Everything in on track – ( I ’ve been recite to say this ) – for the actualisation of our dream . The nightmare of procedures regarding the ‘ setting up ’ of the task are at an ending . We are on carmine alert . Well … gold . All that remains is to ‘ make the deal ’ with one of a number of interested investors and all of a sudden we ’ll gallop apace .
head is … with whom shall we mount into bed ? I ’ll rephrase that . With which television set statistical distribution company will the interests of the new … newish … ‘ Blake ’s Seven ’ be best served ? That ’s the stage we ’re at . It ’s now up to the piercing trader . What do ‘ they ’ want from ‘ us ’ ? What will we get from them ? We ’ll find out earlier rather than after and we ’ll keep you inform . Meanwhile , Andrew Mark Sewell – all three of him – striver off on your behalf . ( And mine – I need the money . ) Simon Moorhead has unite our production squad in place of Brian Lighthill . ( Brian is now ‘ a consultant ’ . squeamish one , Brian . ) And for me … I struggle on in the promise that Avon will not be on his death layer when the television camera start roll up .
Sadly , they never “ rise into layer ” with anybody for the Blake ’s 7 revival , and Darrow had a falling out with the other would - be creators . It ’s probably just as well , since any new series starring Darrow would probably have been a “ Next Generation ” type deal , with the now - grizzled Avon teaching a radical of immature exemption - fighters how they did it in his day . ( Clarence Seward Darrow and some of the original cast did reunify for a couple of wireless drama five or six years ago . )
This novel version seems more potential to be a reboot , with raw actors playing rebel drawing card Blake and the rest of the gang , plus the flouncy - but - evil Supreme Commander Servalan . purportedly some of the same originative people who worked on last class ’s well - received Blake drama for BBC Radio 7 ( which also feature an all - new mold ) will be involved once again . [ BBC News ]
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