Classic BBC Sci-fi Series Blake's 7 To Return On Syfy Channel

Zaiff Urgulbunger writes "According to the BBC, '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.' Here's hoping the special effects budget will be higher than for the original series! Also, I'm hoping that the Liberator is of similar design and includes Zen — the ships computer."

Re:Shit!

[Anonymous Coward]

Agreed - I think Blake's original backstory is more than good enough for today's audience. The "former soldier who's lost his wife" thing struck me as very odd, and very unnecessary.

However, the description of the reboot that I read did include the "escape while en route to a penal colony (Cygnus Alpha?)" and mention of an alien ship (Liberator.)

Summary by someone who never saw the original?

[wonkey_monkey]

Here's hoping the special effects budget will be higher than for the original series!

No, no, no. What we should really be hoping for is that the effects budgets doesn't matter because the writing and characterisation will be so strong.

Still, an American remake of a popular British series - what [wikipedia.org] could [wikipedia.org] possibly [wikipedia.org] go [wikipedia.org] wrong [wikipedia.org]?

Re:I'll miss the old school special effects

[Anaerin]

And you probably won't see it rebroadcast. Fortunately there are some archivally-minded individuals that have made all 4 series available at a certain Privateer's Cove [thepiratebay.gl].

Re:I'll miss the old school special effects

[RLiegh]

At my house, we call SyFy "the reason we cancelled the cable service"