Blake’s 7 reboot possibly on the horizon

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https://deadline.com/2026/01/blakes-7-reboot-peter-hoar-matthew-bouch-multitude-productions-1236682580/

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The rights to this have been bouncing around for so long… 

It’s a wild story. Paul Darrow bought them directly from Terry Nation’s widow (he and Nation had been spit-balling a sequel film where Avon would teach a new generation of freedom fighters). 

Darrow partnered with a producer called Andrew Mark Sewell to found B7 Productions, so they could produce the film. By this point, a script had materialized. 

They found no funding, so Sewell refocused the project as a remake. Eventually an audio remake starring Derek Riddell and Colin Salmon as Blake and Avon. Darrow balked at this idea and left B7. The audio remakes died on their face. Hilariously, they lost their Vila actor halfway through and inexplicably brought back Michael Keating. 

B7 Productions was ultimately bought out by Big Finish. This is why – for the longest time – they only had the rights to material written by Nation himself. Because it wasn’t licenced by the BBC the same way Doctor Who is. 

And Darrow ultimately wrote his and Terry’s sequel concept as a trilogy of books, published through Big Finish. 

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