Fire up ORAC and break out the funky, funky eyepatch, man: Blake’s 7, a classic British sci-fi show i was hyping here just last month, is now set for its own BSG/Doctor Who-style revamp, albeit by Sky Television, who recently tried and failed to bring back The Prisoner. (Rumors were circulating of a B7 return five years ago, but that particular Liberator never got off the ground.)
At any rate, it’ll be interesting to see if a new Blake’s 7 can find its niche in today’s crowded sci-fi market, particularly given that Farscape and Firefly both borrowed liberally from B7’s original “band on the run” premise, and that the new incarnation of Battlestar has appropriated much of the darkness and misanthropy that lingered around Roj Blake’s crew, three decades ago.
(Just had to congratulate you on a clever FotC reference. It did not go unnoticed.)
Dammit, that’ll teach me for not following links.
Glad to see it wasn’t wasted. 🙂
I added the explanatory link just so the non-FotC folk could play along (and because the Bowie clips always make me chuckle.)
I was hoping the title referred to Mr. Barksdale and some sort of Wire reunion 🙁