Survivors

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Welcome to the Survivors (2008) guide at TV.com.''''This BBC drama series follows a group of survivors in the immediate aftermath of a devastating virus that has killed most of the world's population.''''The show is a reinterpretation of the 1970s BBCdrama series of the same name, and based on the novel by Terry Nation. This version takes a bleak assessment of our ability to cope with the loss of technology, and explores the background to the emergence of the virus.moreless
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    By Press Association, Apr 14, 2010

    been axed" link="#" target="" loc="left">The 21st century version of the 1970s cult sci-fi show, this time starring Julie Graham and Max Beesley, has suffered from falling ratings. A BBC spokeswoman confirmed: "The BBC is committed to making a broad range… more

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  • Wishing for Season 3

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    By scottbarlley, Dec 18, 2011 Report Abuse
    I never heard of this series until I came across it on Netflix. I started to watch it because the describtion was good. I started to watch it and finish both the first and second season in one day. I was so intersested to find out when the thrid season was coming out. Disappointed to here the BBC has cancelled the series. Here in New York, I thought it was an amazing series all around.
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  • WOW! Watching season 2 now. This is beyond bad. It's amazing how stupid our heroes are. I want the last 9 hours of my life back. I might sue the producers of this rubbish.moreless

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    By RussHush, Oct 18, 2011 Report Abuse
    This series had all the potential in the world, which only proves that those producing it have little talent, and or allow liberal ideology to trump common sense.
    Chief among their obvious mistakes comes when this group decides that living in an anarchy is possible to do without guns. Obviously the liberal mindset is hard at work here. Then, those who do have guns seem loathe to use them...at least while the camera is on them.
    Oddly, everyone seems a wee bit too civilized in this unrealistic fiction piece. I mean seriously, do you really think anything is realistic in this movie? Armed groups of men allowing beautiful women to be on their merry way? Not hardly. Women will need protecting, especially young beautiful women. Tribalism will be the new world order, at least in the short term. Beautiful women will be the property of the strong. You don't have to like that fact but it is true. In a world where many people have gone feral, it will be a fight for survival, and so if you are not strong enough to fight for what is yours, it will be taken away from you.
    This show has cliche a plenty though and it doesn't just stop with wimpy thugs carrying all of the guns. Big business is of course targets as the root of all evil. Christians, or anyone willing to listen to a Christian ideology is of course portrayed as weak minded and gullible, while of course, a young Muslim boy is portrayed as fiercely independent and intelligent for his age.
    Let's not forget the fact that the two strongest "civilized" leaders of groups of people are of course women, Abby and the Minister. Couldn't have any wise old white men, now could we. No, the only leadership we see by men is erratic, selfish, and or driven by evil thuggery, as with the wimpy thug, Dexter.
    The streets always seemed overly clear, considering the fact that people were given warnings, even if in the end. Face it, panic would ensue and people would not thing clearly. Looting would ensue, people would flee the cities and try to make their way to the homes of relatives living in the country or smaller towns. That may not be rational and surely not everyone would do this but enough would try so as to clog the streets with cars. Streets are only able to handle a small percent of the population at any given time.
    Next, even weeks after this, the people seem to not be very productive. And they seem to toss away chances at survival very casually. Not very realistic in this sense. people who have grown up in a world with as much infrastructure as we have today would cling desperately to infrastructure that is offered to them. Here is where the Liberal mindset seems to go off track in this series. It is suddenly bad for everyone to pull their own weight or be excommunicated. Yes, the Minister, Samantha Willis has the right idea that you have to start to come together and work for the common good, and this is coming from a right leaning independent Yank. ;)
    Even with 99% of the world's population gone, the food stores wouldn't last very long. Truth is, you would have to carefully ration them because it might be as much as two years before you start seeing crops of your own hand growing in a field.
    With 1% of the population left it would be possible though not easy to save civilization and the reality is that only those who are willing to work hard would be able to participate. All others would have to be shut out. Triage would be the order of the day and misfits would reduce your chances of survival.
    In a world such as this, doctors, engineers, farmers, mechanics, carpenters, etc., all will be very valuable to the rebuilding of civilization. Holistic medical practitioners will be especially valuable. Educating each other would be very important but education would be far less broad in it's scope.
    I have to admit thought that this series mildly entertains me on netflix. Mainly because it only serves to spur my imagination of how a world such as this would really operate in such circumstances. Clearly though, it would not operate like this fictional series wants you to believe.moreless

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  • I'm gonna start sending nuts to the jericho producers again!!! (The yanks do catastrophic events so much better)

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    By Hovabyte, Oct 17, 2011 Report Abuse
    I'm to young at 35 to remember the original version of this comedy, but quite how a flu virus can wipe out 90 per cent of the population overnight had me laughing so hard i had to continue watching. Episode 2 didnt dissapoint. a gang of 5 armed with 1 rifle, where so desperate after a few days that they felt the need to expropriate the only supermarket in town (and it was a netto) which makes me wonder did the big 4 UK supermarkets get to watch a preview and decide they didnt want to be assosiated?
    Currently getting pretty good ratings this just proves you can throw any crap down peoples throats during the cold winter months.
    I'll keep watching for next episodes big joke and in the blind hope that freema agyeman is in fact still alive and has just gone back in time with The Doctor to find a cure for this drivel.
    oh and 1 more thing...If 90 percent of the population has been wiped, out there should still be more than 600 million left. So how come we've only seen about 10. And they still don't seem worried about getting the flu.moreless

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  • A post-pandemic character-driven survivalist series of trite-and-testing sub-genre clichés...

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    By cgyford, Oct 17, 2011 Report Abuse
    British screenwriter Adrian Hodges ("Primeval" & "The Sally Lockhart Mysteries"), working under the auspices of BBC executive producer Sue Hogg ("Lark Rise to Candleford" & "Waking the Dead"), resurrects Terry Nation's post-pandemic survivalist series (insert book for legal reasons) in this short-lived modern update intended to cash-in on contemporary concerns.

    A virulent mutation of the influenza virus wipes out 99% of the world's population overnight leaving the matriarchal Abby Grant (Julie Graham) to head up a rag tag band of Mancunian pandemic survivors struggling to, well, survive following the breakdown of society as we know it, or whatever passes for such in Manchester, in the somewhat simplistic set-up to this series.

    Julie Graham ("Bonekickers"), whose career has mysteriously survived her previous outing for the channel, continues to annoy as the suburban housewife, whose constant griping for her missing son will permanently ingrain the name Peter on one of the more twisted parts of your psyche, providing an anchor for the testosterone soaked machismo of Max Beesley and Paterson Joseph.

    Zoe Tapper shows surprising talent hitherto untapped in her previous television outings at the head of a seemingly tokenistic supporting cast which as well as her turn as a bisexual Polish doctor includes the ever entertaining Phillip Rhys and the brilliant young Chahak Patel as a mismatched Muslim double-act and the superfluous to requirements Robyn Addison.

    A feature-length pilot episode somewhat over-hurriedly wipes out the requisite guest cast far too quickly to establish any sense of surprise before unceremoniously dumping the regular cast, including a belatedly introduced Paterson Joseph, on a curiously empty motorway layby just in time for a quick twist to convince the viewers that something more interesting is coming. The first season plods along in the wake of the pilot along much the same lines as the regular cast, including an even more belatedly introduced and curiously unnecessary Robyn Addison, all the necessary elements to lead into the end-of-season cliff-hanger in a series on seemingly cynically plotted encounters with the likes of Nikki Amuka-Bird and Anthony Flanagan.

    The creators' re-imagination of Nation's admittedly far from classic creation have stripped it of all the day-to-day post-apocalyptic lifestyle stuff which made the original original and left a rather drab and un-engaging group of characters attempting to drive a character-driven drama through a by now overly-familiar landscape of trite-and-testing sub-genre clichs. "It turns the body's immune system in on itself."moreless

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  • Snooza-Palooza

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    "Terrible"
    By dramafreezone, Mar 02, 2011 Report Abuse
    This show is dull and completely predictable. It's been done before and so much better. Anyone who's ever seen the tv show Jericho will say the same thing, and even that wasn't enough to keep viewers interested beyond a handful of episodes. In this painfully pale incarnation, they offer dull characters that nobody cares about. They've no range of emotion or acting skill for that matter. They give considerably more meat to the meanies, but they're far too sniveling and hisssing and become comical. I mean 1 gun in all of the UK? Who is the target audience here? First graders who don't know any better perhaps, but anyone with half an imagination could produce a much better show. No, they don't need to pull the plug on this stinker, they need to feed it some cyanide so at least it'll feel some of the agony it's inflicted on the viewers.moreless

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