h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

A new series of Blake's would be very nice, if only so we can find out what really happened to Avon!
Sci-fi is just far too nice at the moment. How many series' do you see nowadays where the good guys are waaaaay in the minority?

The truth is there aren't many TV series that should be brought back,

Take the new avengers for example you just couldn't do it without Joanna lumley

The best TV series are making a statement about the time they were made ,and are best left like that .

There are exceptions Dr who ,and I would love to see Blake's seven brought back.

oh yes please would love to see Blake's 7 again, if I remember rightly, they were all on board a prison ship in the first place, and so not neccessarily bound to be good all the time, especially Avon and his superiority complex, but who would be best to play him now?

Sorry to give you the bad news:

http://www.avon-paul-darrow.co.uk/news.htm

Do a search for the word "movie" to get to the correct bit.

There are echoes of Intelligent Moose's post on remakes.

A new version of B7 would be excellent! Imagine how the space-battle-ish bits would look with modern CGI. How about letting the team that made Babylon 5 loose on it? They had an eye for the alien, and were a dab hand at portraying the evil forces (scary thought - Servelan teaming up with Psi Corp!)

The B5 team doing B7 (or B-Ampersand as it became known between my friends)a good idea; mainly due to J. Michael Straczynski always citing B& as a major influence on B5. He liked the way the stories were character driven rather than effects driven. There was a B7 homage in B5 somewhere but I still have not found out where or what it was - anyone know?

The CGI team would do a great job and cheaply as well. SFX was all CGI (Star Trek still used/use? a mixture of real models and CGI). The B5 team was also able to make the SFX cheaper year on year - they had to with the budgets they had. So, JMS doing the stories and the CGI team doing the ships would be excellent - of course what would the new ship be like? If only they could find another Liberator - I am sure getting Brannon Braga in for one episode would sort out a neat time-travel story to get it back...though JMS did create a mind boggling one with the 4th station.

Umm... A prison ship, renegades on the run... Sounds familiar... Isn't that Farscape in the emperor's new clothes?

For me, the most scary thing about Blakes's 7 were the costumes. And the fact that the sets might come crashing down on the actors at any moment... that would be something I'd love to see...

D'oh!
Why didn't I notice that one!!
I'd love to see them cast Servalan, now there was a baddie!

I'd really love to see those production values applied to the brilliant ideas we've had over here, why is it that the Brits are the inventors, but Americans are better at the production thing?

Why find another Liberator? Why not take it all the way back to day 1 and re-do the whole shmeer? Surely that would be the only sensible way to re-gather a crew that (in the original story) is mostly dead?

I won't tell you my age, but watched a bank of TV screens in a store this morning, and on one was the new Captain Scarlet, on another a pop video, the uncanny thing was that they both had the exact same visual beat, precisely they had motion running left to right, end of pan their camera would tilt back, straighten and go for a close up, then that right to left pan again and everything sequence for sequence motion, I felt like a moron for watching it, they have perfected grabbing my attention by motion, does that presuppose then the story is nothing, if they just kick my head in the right head banging way I'm happy programmed?

No, no, no, no. It isn't called "the shaky space ship show" for nothing you know guys!

To do it again you'd HAVE to do it from scratch - that I'd watch. Picking it up from where it quit. Nope, sorry, no dice.

Though MJS would do it well. AS long as good script writers were added to the package. His can go rather gooie as proved by series 5 and the last two movies.

Mind first thing I thought of for Farscape was - Erm.....B7 anyone? Still love Farscape though, more so as the years wore on.

Zantic

I'd love to see a remake but only if it was made in England and not turned into some feelgood hollywood blockbuster ~ like they did with thunderbirds.That was awful.
I'm enjoying the Farscape re-runs over on BBC3

Hollywood must be banned forever for re-making British science fiction. they tend to make it for the new American audience, and that's lkinda counter the while idea isn't it?

Zantic