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robotnik2004 ([personal profile] robotnik2004) wrote2006-05-07 04:40 pm

Who is Number Six

OR, "I understand you have a lot of unusual names on your baseball team."



'Prisoner' Remake Ready to Roll

British satellite channel Sky One is embarking on a remake of the cult-classic show "The Prisoner." The new series, slated to run for six episodes, would likely premiere sometime next year, 40 years after the original debuted on ITV. Rumors of a new series have been percolating for some time, but Sky One didn't greenlight the project until this week. Several reports in the British press say Christopher Eccleston -- who starred in a revival of another cult favorite, "Doctor Who" -- is in line to play Number 6.

"Marge, I know what I hate... and I don't hate this."

[identity profile] mgrasso.livejournal.com 2006-05-07 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
There are few Prisoner fans greater than I, and I'm holding judgement. You never know... it could be good.

Re: "Marge, I know what I hate... and I don't hate this."

[identity profile] robotnik.livejournal.com 2006-05-07 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
There isn't meant to be any premature judgment in this post one way or the other.

Re: "Marge, I know what I hate... and I don't hate this."

[identity profile] mgrasso.livejournal.com 2006-05-07 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Fanboys are largely up in arms.

[identity profile] shiffer.livejournal.com 2006-05-07 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Isn't that what fanboys do?

[identity profile] robotnik.livejournal.com 2006-05-07 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Luckily there are no fanboys here. Just three coooool dudes talking about a rumored Prisoner remake on LiveJournal. :)

[identity profile] mgrasso.livejournal.com 2006-05-07 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh. I wonder if it'll be a sequel, or a reimagining a la BSG. I kind of wouldn't mind either of them, to be honest. I now must re-read the graphic novel sequel that came out when I was in junior high.

[identity profile] robotnik.livejournal.com 2006-05-07 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
The cool/classy thing to do would be to cast Patrick McGoohan as Number Two, if he'd do it.

[identity profile] mgrasso.livejournal.com 2006-05-07 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
*chuckle* I keep wanting him to pop up on Lost as Alvar Hanso. *dreams*

Luckily there are no fanboys here.

[identity profile] head58.livejournal.com 2006-05-07 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
TIKA 4-EVA!!!!!

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[identity profile] mgrasso.livejournal.com 2006-05-07 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay, I win!

Re: Luckily there are no fanboys here.

[identity profile] robotnik.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
Get your white trash spiced potato lovin asses out of my LJ! Laurana or Kit: that's the choice! Christ, it's like if we were debating Mary-Ann or Ginger, and you chose Alice from the Brady Bunch. :)

Re: Luckily there are no fanboys here.

[identity profile] head58.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
I've always been a Kitiara man. The Tika thing was just to draw Mike out.

Re: Luckily there are no fanboys here.

[identity profile] vampyrusgirl.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
But the real question is, are you an Alice man?

[identity profile] shiffer.livejournal.com 2006-05-07 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Doctor Who for a year, Number 6 the next one.

I really have to wonder - what will he do next year?

[identity profile] robotnik.livejournal.com 2006-05-07 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)


Three letters: U F'n O.

[identity profile] robotnik.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
You know what that picture looks like to me now, is a scene from Morrison's The Filth.

[identity profile] head58.livejournal.com 2006-05-07 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I put about as much stock in this as the folks who thought Lucy Lawless was going to play Wonder Woman, because, you know, woman warrior and all. Having Eccleston come in to magically resussitate a second cult series? How likely is that? I tough the whole thing in disbelief.

[identity profile] robotnik.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
The other Prisoner-adaptation post I ran across today:

Jack Kirby's The Prisoner?

[identity profile] robotnik.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
Daaaar - that was supposed to be a new comment of its own, not really a reply to the Head of Chef. And it was supposed to contain a link: http://the-isb.blogspot.com/2006/04/week-in-ink-4-26-06.html (scroll down).

[identity profile] gammafodder1.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 01:14 pm (UTC)(link)
OMFG! A remake of The Prisoner series? Touch me. Right there. In the pants.