The most recent traditional TV collection confirmed to be getting the reboot remedy is Blake’s 7, with a seasoned TV director hooked up to the venture. Terry Nation’s Blake’s 7 aired on the BBC from 1978 to 1981, turning into a sci-fi TV cult traditional, with the lead common forged together with Michael Keating, Paul Darrow, and Peter Tuddenham. The total present contains 4 seasons and 52 episodes.
Blake’s 7 follows a gaggle of fugitives preventing towards a totalitarian regime that has taken over Earth and lots of different planets, the story utilizing many tried-and-true area opera tropes. Per Deadline, Peter Hoar, the director of the acclaimed TV episode “Lengthy, Lengthy Time” (season 1, episode 3) of HBO’s zombie collection The Final of Us, is now growing a reboot of Blake’s 7.
The Emmy nominee not too long ago launched the “genre-based” indie Multitude Productions with Matthew Bouch and Jason Haigh-Ellery, via which the brand new Blake’s 7 will probably be produced. The Multitude group, which now additionally contains govt producer Lizzie Worsdell (The Carer), will probably be procuring Blake’s 7 to patrons quickly, and Bouch would “adore it to go to the BBC.“
Indicating the goals of the corporate’s upcoming manufacturing, Bouch stated: “We’re pushed by our passions but additionally seeing that there’s a hole out there within the UK – significantly with the well-publicized dropping off of Physician Who – for genre-based British IP.” Disney+ not too long ago exited its large co-pro deal for Physician Who after solely two new seasons of the traditional British time-travel collection.
Along with his work on two episodes of The Final of Us, Hoar has served as a director on TV exhibits together with It is a Sin, The Umbrella Academy, Daredevil, Cloak & Dagger, Boots, and two episodes of Physician Who, each of which debuted in 2025. He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for guiding “Lengthy, Lengthy Time” and has received two BAFTAS for The Final of Us and It is a Sin.
Matthew Bouch is an govt producer on A Good Woman’s Information to Homicide, in addition to The Well-known 5, a producer on Being Human, and a consulting producer on The Witcher.
Multitude Productions can be engaged on a TV collection adaptation of Luke Rhinehart’s The Seek for the Cube Man, with an unnamed A-lister hooked up to star, in addition to Danny Wallace (Sure Man) as author and Tim Kirkby (Fleabag) as director. Additionally they have an adaptation of Patrick Carman’s Skeleton Creek coming from Phillip Morgan; Hoar described this as “British Stranger Issues crossed with Skins.“
With Blake’s 7, particularly, and likewise its different tasks, Multitude Productions is making an attempt to revive a sure area of interest of popular culture, using current IP. Solely time will inform how this enterprise will pan out, and if it can increase the perfect exhibits like Physician Who.
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1978 – 1981-00-00
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Michael Keating
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