The Tribe (TV series)
| The Tribe | |
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Opening credits
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| Genre |
Teen drama Science fiction Post-apocalyptic fiction |
| Created by |
Raymond Thompson Harry Duffin |
| Developed by | Cloud 9 Screen Entertainment Group Channel 5 |
| Starring | Cast |
| Theme music composer |
Simon May Simon Lockyer |
| Opening theme | "The Dream Must Stay Alive" Rosalind J (Series 1) Meryl Cassie (Series 2–5) |
| Ending theme | "The Dream Must Stay Alive" Rosalind J (Series 1) "Abe Messiah" Tribe cast (Series 2–3) "Tribe Spirit" Tribe Sister (Series 4–5) |
| Country of origin | New Zealand (Production) United Kingdom (Commissioning) |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 5 |
| No. of episodes | 260 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Raymond Thompson Geoff Husson |
| Producer(s) | Declan Eames (Season 1) Debra Kelleher-Smith (Seasons 2–5) |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 25 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | Channel 5 |
| First shown in | United Kingdom |
| Original release | 24 April 1999 – 6 September 2003 |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by | The New Tomorrow |
| External links | |
| Website | |
The Tribe is a New Zealand/British post-apocalyptic fictional TV series primarily aimed at teenagers. It is set in a near-future in which all adults have been wiped out by a deadly virus, leaving the children of the world to fend for themselves. The show's focus is on an unnamed city inhabited by tribes of children and teenagers. It was primarily filmed in and around Wellington, New Zealand.
The series was created by Raymond Thompson and Harry Duffin (from an original idea by Raymond Thompson) and was developed and produced by the Cloud 9 Screen Entertainment Group in conjunction with the UK's Channel 5. It has aired on over 40 broadcast networks around the world.(See: Broadcast history)
It debuted on Channel 5 on 24 April 1999 and quickly gained a large fan base. From 1999 to 2003, five series and 260 half-hour episodes were produced. Series 6 was scheduled to begin filming in 2003, but Nick Wilson, of Channel 5, and Raymond Thompson felt that "although the show was still performing well, the cast was getting too old and the series was beginning to stretch the core proposition." They felt the characters were not kids fending for themselves without adults any more. Therefore a season 6 was never filmed but was instead made into a book called "The Tribe A New Dawn". As a result, the show was cancelled. Channel 5 aired the final two episodes on 6 September 2003.
A sequel to The Tribe, The New Tomorrow, was produced by Cloud 9 and Channel 5 and aired in 2005. It was aimed at a younger audience, 8 to 12-year olds, and told the story of descendants from the original series with a new cast.
Discussion which led to the creation of the series began when Raymond Thompson, co-founder of the production company Cloud 9 Screen Entertainment Group and known for his work as a screenwriter on the soap Howards' Way, was approached by Nick Wilson of Channel 5 to "develop a soap for the millennium targeting a child/adolescent market". Raymond Thompson recalled an idea that he had as far back as the 1980s about a world without adults, run by tribes of children and teenagers. Having already worked with writer Harry Duffin on several occasions, Thompson contacted him in November 1997 to work with him on further developing of the new TV series for Cloud 9. They then commissioned and recruited a team of ten writers to adapt the storylines and by July 1998 the first four scripts of The Tribe were finished.
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