The Prisoner to be remade for Sky One

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Damien Timmer, who has been lined up to executive produce the show for Granada, told Broadcast the new series would take "liberties with the original" and would not retain its arty feel.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 17 November 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps they can try to make it non-drivel this time. Unlikely, I know.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 17 November 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 17 November 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

Ugh. This will probably be terrible. Patrick Mcgoohan isn't even dead yet -- can you imagine what it must feel like to see a crappy imitation of your masterwork? I wonder if they'll even bother to consult him, or he'll return their phone calls.

I don't think there's any way they can come close. Odds are, this will make Lost seem like the Invisibles.

― scrimhaw1837 (son_of_scrimshaw), Thursday, 17 November 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

whatever happened to the film version that was going to be made five years ago? mel gibson was attached to it so the fact that it died is probably a good thing.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 18 November 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

the passion of the prisoner

― oh ilx my lionheart (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 18 November 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)

they should film it in port sunlight!

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 18 November 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

how dare they try and recreate this classic

i'm sorry but there is no way sky one could recreate this classic australian drama set in a women's prision and do it justice

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Friday, 18 November 2005 05:33 (twenty years ago)

what do you think this is supposed to mean?

"Although it will be a radical reinvention, it will still be a heightened show," he added.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 18 November 2005 05:58 (twenty years ago)

heightened security?

― oh ilx my lionheart (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 18 November 2005 05:59 (twenty years ago)

Hmm.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 18 November 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

what do you think this is supposed to mean?
"Although it will be a radical reinvention, it will still be a heightened show," he added.

They will be filming at a ski resort as opposed to a seaside resort?

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Friday, 18 November 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

Another pointless, dull-as-christ adaptation of a classic series/film/blah made for lowest common denominator sky watching chavs, thatmakesmefeellikeIamturningintorcrumb, JOY!

― mzui (mzui), Friday, 18 November 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

People who use the word "chavs" = worse than "chavs"

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Friday, 18 November 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

how so?

― mzui (mzui), Friday, 18 November 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

Oh let's not go over all that again

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Friday, 18 November 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

I hope they cast Danny Bonaduce as the lead.

― Lars and Jagger (Ex Leon), Friday, 18 November 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

Yes let's not go over what ever it was you don't want to talk about then, mysterious bloke.

― mzui (mzui), Friday, 18 November 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

As it seems rather unlikely this 'show' will bear the slightest resemblance to the original, why is it presumably going to be allowed to go under the title of 'The Prisoner'? Surely, it should have a title that reflects its content...

― Tom May (Tom May), Friday, 18 November 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

would not retain its arty feel.

Let's not make anyone's head hurt.

why is it presumably going to be allowed to go under the title of 'The Prisoner'?

Because the *title* is the thing that's being SOLD. Which is what I find weird about these do-overs, because the Target Audience -- cultural illiterates under 30 -- has never known the originals anyway.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 November 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

i thought mcgoohan owned the prisoner, or at least the name. I'm surprised he's letting this happen.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 18 November 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

this is terrible...omg. what does drivel mean btw? (m skidmore)

― Vacillating temp (Vacillating temp), Friday, 18 November 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

It means he thinks its a load of rubbish.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Friday, 18 November 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

four weeks pass...

I haven't heard anymore about this thankfully.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Saturday, 17 December 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

What's the harm in it? I can't get too worked up either way.

The existance of an additional, inferior version of the prisoner won't make the first version go away, or force anyone to watch it, or do anything much except give temporary employment to some enthusiastic and foolish people who were able to talk somebody else into putting money into the project. If it is crap, it will sink. If, against all odds it is good, then there will two good versions.

― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 17 December 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

I disagree with your arithmetic there!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 17 December 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

OK, for you Martin: "two" "good" versions.

― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 17 December 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

Christopher Eccleston now "in talks" to play Number Six in the remake, apparently.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 5 May 2006 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I can live with that one.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 May 2006 10:16 (nineteen years ago)

So who gets to be Number 2? Ricky Gervais? Robson Green? Sir Alan Sugar?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 5 May 2006 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

it'll be ok if totally different from the original.

― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Friday, 5 May 2006 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

More importantly, have they found a mute dwarf butler? And are they getting Fenella Fielding back for the Tannoy?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 5 May 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

Knowing our luck, they'll probably get Davina McCall.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 5 May 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

ross kemp!

― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Friday, 5 May 2006 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

there is no way that this will not suck.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 5 May 2006 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

I think I'm with Pashmina on this.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 5 May 2006 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

Sir Alan Sugar for No. 2, deffo

― Vitbe... *pause*... Is Good Bread (Dada), Friday, 5 May 2006 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, he even looks a bit like Leo McKern, no?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 5 May 2006 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

I can't see the resemblence myself.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 5 May 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

Is Eccles going to do it in Northern?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 5 May 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

Eamonn Holmes as Rover?

― Vitbe... *pause*... Is Good Bread (Dada), Friday, 5 May 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

Ruth Badger as Rover shurely?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 5 May 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

No doubt the series will also feature Keeley Hawes or Amanda Holden as Number 6's totally spurious love interest.

If they were serious about getting this right, I reckon Julia Davis would make a fantastic Number 2.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 5 May 2006 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

If they were serious about getting it right, they'd have a different Number 2 in every episode.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 5 May 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

It's a six-parter so: Robson Green, Ross Kemp, Martin Kemp, Amanda Burton, Joe McGann and Mark Owen, in that order.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 5 May 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

Wo ist Tamsin Outhwaite?

― Vitbe... *pause*... Is Good Bread (Dada), Friday, 5 May 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

"Lots of spy firms have a North."

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 5 May 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

"Number six! You are on live feed to number two! Plesae do not swear!"

xpost, quite natually.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 May 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

Wot, no Simon Amstell?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 May 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently Portmeirion isn't "exotic" enough and it's being moved somewhere "foreign".

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 5 May 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

Bah.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 5 May 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

Welsh not foreign enough?

― Vitbe... *pause*... Is Good Bread (Dada), Friday, 5 May 2006 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

THIS IS HOW NAZI GERMANY STARTED: Nicky Wire writes

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 5 May 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

Welsh too foreign. Relocating to Bermuda.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 May 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

So now it's on ITV

And nobody's saying owt?

(just watching it on iplayer)

― Mark G, Monday, 19 April 2010 22:49 (fifteen years ago)

It was rubbish. Not much more to say than that, right?

― emil.y, Monday, 19 April 2010 23:45 (fifteen years ago)

So it seemed.

Might watch the series, out of duty mostly.

Alice got all excited about a clip on the One show, I had to tell her the bit she saw was from the original (we've been to portmeirion), and promised to dig up the boxset...

― Mark G, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 05:34 (fifteen years ago)

― Mark G, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 07:36 (fifteen years ago)

No thoughts? Or, too obvious to bother?

― Mark G, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 12:08 (fifteen years ago)

i saw it. i think it would've been better if the original hadn't existed.

i like the triangular houses. but think the village is too big (too many roads and buses)

― koogs, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 20:11 (fifteen years ago)

liked the bit with number 2 and the cherry cake.

― koogs, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 20:12 (fifteen years ago)

is amc bringing this back? I never watched it and never heard from anyone who did. I think it was regarded as a big failure.

― akm, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 21:01 (fifteen years ago)

i've been watching the original and the conceit is really wearing me down after five or six episodes.

― by another name (amateurist), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 00:22 (fifteen years ago)

ep1 seemed to conflate a number of the original episodes.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 21 April 2010 10:36 (fifteen years ago)

Funny, ITV4 has just started a repeat screening of the original "Prisoner" series.

Or, at least, episode 1, which was on last night.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 14:39 (fifteen years ago)

Yes, I saw that, totally forgotten that bit with the looney guy staring at a ping pong ball on a jet of water

― Tonight, the Looming Moment of Crunch (Tom D.), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 14:42 (fifteen years ago)

We went to Portmeirion about 5 years ago.

Family totally amazed at how much it hadn't changed since 1967 (or whenever)

― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 15:03 (fifteen years ago)

Kind of the point of the place though?

― Tonight, the Looming Moment of Crunch (Tom D.), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 15:04 (fifteen years ago)

> Funny, ITV4 has just started a repeat screening of the original "Prisoner" series.

the timing of episode 1 is funny but they show that thing in perpetuity on itv4. the week after if finishes they start again from the beginning. (1st ep on again today, ep2 on next mon and tue)

― koogs, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 15:21 (fifteen years ago)

Funny, there was a preview on The One Show about a week before the new Ep1 aired. Ian McKellern was on.

They showed a brief excerpt of the original series (which is a really bad/impolite thing to do) and our Alice got very keen about seeing it. (The old one, that is)

She's away on a school trip, but I do have it on DVD anyway..

― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 15:26 (fifteen years ago)

twelve years pass...

Found the Prisoner remake in Oxfam, £1.50

Just finished the last episode.

It's... Ok. Nothing like the original, in fact it seemed like a loose set of scripts tied in with some references to the old series. Only "Rover" had the same role.

I wouldn't have watched it if it hadn't been named as such, but it was interesting anyway.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 15:20 (three years ago)

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