Blakes 7 news

May be time to dig the videos and work out new ships for Blakes7.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/705922.stm

> On 30 Jul 2003 at 21:56, Brendan Robertson wrote:

> May be time to dig the videos and work out new ships for Blakes7.

That's from April 2000. This week's news story is at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3102295.stm

And frankly I'll believe it when I see it. Paul Darrow's been trying to get
this off the ground for years and the money still isn't all in place.

> At 1:01 PM +0100 7/30/03, Steve Pugh wrote:

Look at how long Richard Hatch tried to get Battle Star Galactica redone.

> Ryan Gill wrote:

Yes, and he's still trying.

BSG has a fan base large enough for factions?

> Michael Brown wrote:

I'm sorry, I didn't make myself clear. It isn't the fan base that has the
factions. It's the *producers*.

Richard Hatch wanted to produce a new Galactica, remaining faithful to the
original. He wrote three BSG novels, and was shopping the concept around,
looking for backers.

Meanwhile, the corporate executives who had

Edward James Olmos who will play Adama in the new series said:

"There's no two ways around it. If I were a purist, I wouldn't watch it. Don't
waste your time. Get the old version on DVD. Don't hurt yourself. Don't go
through the pain."

I tend to agree. Starbuck a *woman*?!? sheesh.

If everyone wants to see a new series exactly in every detail identical to the
old one, guess what, it will never happen. The idea is to be as open as
possible to a new interpretation of the story. I admit I'm puzzled by the
decision to make Starbuck and Boomer women; I don't get it. But I'll wait to
see the ideas and a new view of things before I condemn it. It just might be a
killer idea that will blow all of our minds. Or it might be just a slightly
different take on an old story. I'm more disappointed by what I see as a
slight to Richard Hatch on this whole project. According to what I read, Hatch
was negotiating with the studio, which owned the TV rights. Moyer worked with
Larson, who had the movie rights. Now, isn't a SciFi channel series TV? Or am
I missing some crucial developments?

They're doing it as a miniseries, which is more like a group of films than a
television show. On the other hand, there have been the usual rumors about a
series "if the miniseries does well". They might be able to get away with a
series based on their original work, but Hatch might sue.

> Glenn Higgins wrote:

> Edward James Olmos who will play Adama in the