Blake's 7 in the Telegraph

I've written a piece for the Telegraph about Blake's 7 (£), in response to yesterday's story in Deadline about a new reboot which is being led by directors Peter Hoar and Michael Bouch, and my friend / sometime boss Jason Haigh-Ellery from Big Finish.

The editor thought better of my original title, "We can dance again."

ETA, the piece was also published in the print version of the Daily Telegraph on 24 January under the title "My open letter to the makers of the new Blake's 7 reboot" (Review, pp. 8-9.

In 2008-09, I was partly involved in a previous effort to reboot Blake's 7, and wrote The Dust Run and The Trial, a two-part audio story that starred Carrie Dobro and Benedict Cumberbatch. 

Since then, I've written and script-edited a number of Blake's 7 audio plays for Big Finish, featuring cast members from the original TV series. Here is the full list:

• The Dust Run and The Trial (B7 Media, 2009), later broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra and released as part of A Rebellion Reborn (Big Finish, 2013)
• The Turing Test, featured in The Liberator Chronicles Volume 1 (Big Finish, 2012) 
• The Magnificent Four, featured in The Liberator Chronicles Volume 2 (Big Finish, 2012)
• Logic, featured in The Liberator Chronicles Volume 5 (Big Finish, 2013)
• Spy, featured in The Liberator Chronicles Volume 7 (Big Finish, 2014)
• President, featured in The Liberator Chronicles Volume 8 (Big Finish, 2014)
• Remnants (Big Finish, 2015)
• The Offer (as script editor), featured in The Terra Nostra (Big Finish, 2022)
• No Name, featured in Allies and Enemies (Big Finish Productions, 2022)

We could be heroes. Or villains.