Survivors 2008 BBCTV (new series)

By: dunstun365

This series actualy took me by suprise as I only saw the last (6th.) episode but caught up with the rest on BBC iplayer. It was aired in nov-Dec last year and proved so poipular that The BBC has comissioned another series due to be shown later this year.
The series follows a small, plucky group of people who survive after a catastrophic virus wiped out over 99.9% of the world"s population. This happened in a matter of days so the government didn"t realise how serious it was until it was too late and essential health, fire & police services, including radio & TV quickly came to an end. So many people were lost that the remaining survivors didn"t know another living soul left alive. Not just loved ones and friends but almost everybody they"d ever met or seen before - at the local newsagent, supermarket, through work, in the pub etc. Luckily, this tiny group of strangers met purely by chance and quickly banded together which is realistic considering how humans behave in times of great loss: [9 11 anybody?] They quickly learned that it wasn"t just essential services but civilisation itself had simply ceased to exist. Food kept in fridges and freezers would perish in a matter of hours after the power went off. Running water was cut off shortly after power because water has to be pumped using electricity.
The towns were unsafe because rats and decaying bodies would spread disease. They would probably flood anyway if the drains became blocked by debris. [In my town it would flood because we rely on pumping stations as much of the area is so close to or below sea level].
Every man made product will have been produced and designed using the skills of people from a wide variety of professions & trades. Would anybody know how to make a candle for example?
What about medical with hardly any doctors or nurses left. The series will attempt to answer a lot of these questions
This series is a re-image of the original 70"s drama created by Terry Nation and Adrian Hodges

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by: Tony Dunn who is a designer & CIW student who has written articles on various different topics including arts & enterntainmet reviews & true life stories. Available on DVD from January this year.For more infomation on that, please visit tonysfilmtvreviews.blogspot.com /

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