--- In Survivorstvseries@yahoogroups.com, "Johnny" <johnny@...> wrote:
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> On BBC news this morning they had a little piece about the new series
> but the one thing that stood out is when they said 'there was a series
> in the 70's that had the same name'!! What about it being the same
> idea and them going to the estate of Terry Nation for the rights, very
> lazy journalism, obviously the researcher was not old enough to know
> anything of the original.


:)

Most researchers for TV stations are barely out of their teens and
have the job due to family connections rather than any brains.

But looking forward to Sundays first episode despite my own misgivings
about it all looking a tad too 'by the numbers'.

Going to be interesting to see how they handle the actually epidemic
especially in terms of how it might actually happen in terms of how
its reported on what with the internet, 24 hour news stations and the
like. Just how they dealt with the SARS outbreak and the Bird-flu
scars give an idea of what it might be like.

Also, just as something to ponder on, how quickly do you think central
government might pull the plug on the Internet ? I would guess that in
this day and age of almost political obsession with spin if something
did begin to rapidly spread and kill people they might look to kill
the messangers PDQ.

Or would they just not have the time ?


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