Chris

The rights move around. Paul Darrow himself owned them at one point. The problem is never whether anyone wants to re-boot, or sequel, B7. The problem is finding a distributor. The BBC has shown zero interest in the past, which is unsurprising as it showed zero interest when they were actually making it, tossing it an early-evening filler budget and letting the crew get on with it until the main Liberator control room set was literally falling apart (for which I’m convinced the script for Terminal was a deliberate metaphor).

In fact it seems the only time anyone high-up at the BBC ever watched it was when Bill Cotton, BBC1’s controller at the time, caught Terminal (which was supposed to be the series finale) when broadcast, realised how good it all was, and recommissioned it on the spot - even going so far as to phone TV Centre to instruct them to have the continuity announcer assure viewers Blake’s Seven would be back for a new series next year, over the closing credits.

If it’s pitched well, Netflix, Apple and Prime TV all have a reasonably strong interest in UK-made content and the new rights owner might get a nibble from one of them. Sadly, I think the BBC’s present management wouldn’t know a good thing if it slapped them in the face with a wet fish. And even if they did go for it, they’d insist on making Blake, Avon and Jenna into a non-binary throuple while Servalan’s motivation for subjugating the galaxy is their misgendering at a long-forgotten university sit-in.