{"id":1307,"date":"2005-11-17T09:02:30","date_gmt":"2005-11-17T09:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2005\/11\/new_version_of\/"},"modified":"2005-11-17T09:02:30","modified_gmt":"2005-11-17T09:02:30","slug":"new_version_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/new_version_of\/","title":{"rendered":"New Version Of &#8220;The Prisoner&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really don&#8217;t know what to make of this.<br \/>\nGranada are said, by today&#8217;s Broadcast <a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadcastnow.co.uk\">website<\/a> (no direct free link I&#8217;m afraid, although the story&#8217;s possibly in the paper version), to be making a new version of the all time classic TV show &#8211; The Prisoner.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know anything else about it for the moment, but as soon as I do, it&#8217;ll appear here.<br \/>\n[UPDATE]\nI now have my printed copy of Broadcast which has the story on the front page. It seems that the new eight part series is being written by <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/name\/nm0302339\/\">Bill Gallagher<\/a>, writer of &#8220;Conviction&#8221;, episode(s) of &#8220;Clocking Off&#8221; and &#8220;Dalziel &#038; Pascoe&#8221; amongst others.<br \/>\nIt seems that Granada is in talks with Sky One, and that the new version won&#8217;t be shot in Portmeirion and will be &#8220;aimed at fans of 24 and Spooks.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Although it will be a radical reinvention, it will still be a heightened show with themes such as paranoia, conspiracy and identity crisis,&#8221; says one of the programme&#8217;s executive producers <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/name\/nm0863643\/\">Damien Timmer<\/a> (&#8220;Marple&#8221;, &#8220;Poirot&#8221;, &#8220;Jericho&#8221;).<br \/>\nI suppose I&#8217;ll be disappointed that it&#8217;s going on Sky and not on ITV. Surely ITV would love a show like Spooks? And if it&#8217;s eight episodes, does that mean it&#8217;s all wrapped up in that time, or is likely to be a returning series? I&#8217;m guessing the latter, since that&#8217;s more of a proposition for Sky. I&#8217;ll just have to withhold judgement until I&#8217;ve seen it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really don&#8217;t know what to make of this. Granada are said, by today&#8217;s Broadcast website (no direct free link I&#8217;m afraid, although the story&#8217;s possibly in the paper version), to be making a new version of the all time classic TV show &#8211; The Prisoner. I don&#8217;t know anything else about it for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}