![]() ![]() For legal reasons, the new series is billed as being based on Nation's novelisation of material from his episodes of the 1970s series. The agreement, which was signed in 2007, took months of negotiations. The BBC pursued the rights for Survivors from Terry Nation's estate so that the series could be revived. It was decided that the show would be a re-imagining of the 1970s material made by BBC Productions rather than an external production company. ![]() Sue Hogg, an executive producer at the BBC, was inspired to remake Survivors following the recent increase in concerns about future pandemics and diseases such as SARS. The series sees the characters struggling against terrible dangers in a world with no society, no police, and no law, led by the de facto matriarch of the group, Abby Grant. Set in the 2000s, the series focuses on a group of ordinary people who survive the aftermath of a devastating viral pandemic – referred to as "European flu" – which kills most of the world's population by causing cytokine storms in the body's immune system. The series premiered in South Africa on BBC Entertainment, in September 2009, in France on DTTV channel NRJ 12 on 12 January 2010, on BBC America in the United States on 13 February 2010, and in Australia on Channel Nine, on 21 March 2010. The BBC announced on 13 April 2010 that due to poor viewing figures Survivors had been cancelled. Two series were produced of the new show: series 1 ran on BBC One and BBC HD in November–December 2008, and series 2 ran in January–February 2010, ending with a cliffhanger. According to the producers, the series is not a remake of the 1970s BBC television series Survivors (1975–1977), created by Terry Nation, but rather is loosely based on the novel of the same name that Nation wrote following the first series of the 1970s programme. It depicts the lives of a group of people who survived a virulent unknown strain of influenza which has wiped out most of the human species. ![]() Survivors is a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC. ![]()
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