Anyone watching BBC1 last night would’ve seen an apocalyptic drama unfold in their new series, Survivors. Well, I say new series, it’s a remake of the original series, first broadcast in 1975, and created by Terry Nation (aka/ the man what created the Daleks). The original Survivors is regarded as a classic. Which just makes it all the more disappointing that the new version is really not very good at all.
And unusually, mobile phones can be used as an indicator of how interminably dull the whole thing was…
The whole world is ravaged by a super-flu virus, right, and surely that must lead to some kind of exciting shenanigans, with rioting and looting and all kinds of the dark side of humanity on display, until the ones who were immune (the ‘Survivors’ of the title) get their act together, and repopulate the planet. or something.
No.
What we get is 1 minute and 44 seconds of someone with an increasingly... ... read more (mobileshop-blog)