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**Wolfstan**

Just seen this on the BBC website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22079232

Blake's 7: Classic BBC sci-fi to return on Syfy channel
Cult classic sci-fi series Blake's 7 is to be remade for the Syfy network, it has been announced.
FremantleMedia International said 13 hour-long episodes will be written by Heroes writer Joe Pokaski.
It added, in a statement, that Casino Royale and Goldeneye director Martin Campbell was also on board.
The original series, which ran on the BBC between 1978 and 1981, followed the exploits of a group of renegades and convicted criminals.
Roj Blake, played by Welsh actor Gareth Thomas, was a political dissident arrested, tried and convicted on false charges by a brutal totalitarian government, and then deported from Earth to a prison planet.
Stealing a spaceship, Blake and his team conducted a campaign against the ruling Terran Federation.
Peak audience
Comparing Blake's 7 with the hit US sci-fi series Star Trek, The Independent said in 1998: "No 'boldly going' here: instead, we got the boot stamping on a human face which George Orwell offered as a vision of humanity's future in Nineteen Eighty-Four."
At its peak, the series was watched by 10 million viewers and was sold to 40 countries. A range of Blake's 7 merchandise including books, magazines, annuals and toys were also released.
A radio adaptation, featuring This Life's Daniela Nardini as villain Servalan, was made in 2006.
According to FremantleMedia, the new series will be set in 2136 and will "tell the story of seven criminals - six guilty and one innocent - on their way to life on a prison colony in space, who together wrestle freedom from imprisonment".
It continued: "They acquire an alien ship which gives them a second chance at life and become the most unlikely heroes of their time".
Chief executive officer David Ellender said: "Blake's 7 was such a forward-thinking concept that the show continues to have resonance with audiences today."
The latest announcement is not the first time a remake of Blake's 7 has been attempted.
In 2003, a miniseries was shelved after actor Paul Darrow - who played Kerr Avon in the original show - left the project.
Later in 2008, Sky One announced it had commissioned two 60-minute scripts for a potential series but two years later said it had decided not to proceed.

**Wyrmalla**

0.0 To the torrents quick!

Hopefully they do it justice and don't dumb it down for today's modern audiences ("pew pew" goes the lazer).

**Ribon Fox**

Disliked it when i was a kid, disliked it when i watched it as a sci-fi geek, dislike it now still
The are digging up any old crap, polishing it up and hoping no one notices that it still is a load of crap.
This needs to be left in room 101.

**Howard A Treesong**

Ribon Fox wrote:
Disliked it when i was a kid, disliked it when i watched it as a sci-fi geek, dislike it now still
The are digging up any old crap, polishing it up and hoping no one notices that it still is a load of crap.
This needs to be left in room 101.

Rubbish, it was an excellent series. A fine example of something carried along entirely by an engaging cast and interesting characters, because the special effects were dire. But the cast are often such a joy to watch, that it just doesn't matter. I can't see that a remake will improve on it, because unlike something like Battlestar Galactica, the original was genuinely very good. I also like that it's a proper story full of morally grey characters, it's become clichéd to say that now, but they really were, even the heroes are a mix of the selfish, cowards, fanatics, and otherwise unpleasant. And the ending was suitably bleak and wasteful.

**chromedog**

Disliked B7 when I was a kid, hope they never remake it.

Wobbly cardboard sets and exterior locations leftover from Dr Who shoots. Overacting so bad, teethmarks were left in the scenery. It was like panto - set in space.