Survivors (2008 TV series)
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Survivors title sequence
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| Genre | Post-apocalyptic drama |
| Created by |
Adrian Hodges Terry Nation (novel) |
| Starring |
Julie Graham Max Beesley Freema Agyeman Paterson Joseph Zoe Tapper Phillip Rhys Robyn Addison Nikki Amuka-Bird Geraldine Somerville Nicholas Gleaves Chahak Patel Jack Richardson Emma Lowndes Sacha Parkinson |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 12 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 60 minutes 90 minutes (Series 1 Episode 1) |
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| Original network |
BBC One BBC HD |
| Picture format | 1080p (HDTV) |
| Original release | 23 November 2008 – 23 February 2010 |
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| Related shows | Survivors |
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| Website | |
Survivors is a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC. It depicts the lives of a group of people who survived a virulent unknown strain of influenza which has wiped out most of the human species. According to the producers, the series is not a remake of the 1970s BBC television series Survivors (1975–1977), created by Terry Nation, but rather is loosely based on the novel of the same name that Nation wrote following the first series of the 1970s programme. Two series were produced of the new show: series 1 ran on BBC One and BBC HD in November–December 2008, and series 2 ran in January–February 2010, ending with a cliffhanger. The BBC announced on 13 April 2010 that, due to poor viewing figures and other considerations,Survivors had been cancelled.
The series premiered in South Africa on BBC Entertainment, in September 2009, in France on DTTV channel NRJ 12 on 12 January 2010, on BBC America in the United States on 13 February 2010, and in Australia on Channel Nine, on 21 March 2010.
Set in the present day, the series focuses on a group of ordinary people who survive the aftermath of a devastating viral pandemic – referred to as "European flu" – which kills most of the world's population by causing Cytokine Storms in the body's immune system. The series sees the characters struggling against terrible dangers in a world with no society, no police, and no law, led by the de facto matriarch of the group, Abby Grant.
Sue Hogg, an executive producer at the BBC, was inspired to remake Survivors following the recent increase in concerns about future pandemics and diseases such as SARS. It was decided that the show would be a re-imagining of the 1970s material made by BBC Productions rather than an external production company. The BBC pursued the rights for Survivors from Terry Nation's estate so that the series could be revived. The agreement, which was signed in 2007, took months of negotiations. For legal reasons, the new series is billed as being based on Nation's novelisation of material from his episodes of the 1970s series.
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