Harry's Blog

We switched on BBC HD this evening to watch the Beeb's new drama serial Survivors, a remake of the 1970s show where humanity¹ is wiped out by a deadly plague.

I've just read one person's opinion of it being like a Doctors² apocalypse special. Which neatly sums up the awfulness of the 90 minutes we've just sat through.

It really is daytime soap am-dram meets 28 Days Later. Except for the zombies. Nothing that interesting happened. Nicely ethnicly diverse though...well done...add an eight inch cook³ and some special children and it would have ticked enough boxes to get on Cbeebies.

The best bits were high-definition aerial shots. But these are probably just offcuts from Andrew Marr's Britain From the Air. The BBC hasn't quite sussed out how to make the best use of HD yet, so it tends to fall back on filming things from a long way away. And HDing up rubbish like Last of the Summer Wine and After You've Gone.

But I digress...there will be five more episodes of this dreary and rather unfulfilling show. You've got to admire the ability of writers and a director who can take such a brilliant concept for a TV show and somehow get 90 minutes of very dull television out of it.

Nearly everyone in the world is dead. There are so many possibilities. And so what do you think the trail for next week's episode looked like? Was it a retard ridden by a dwarf fighting Mel Gibson for the pleasure of Tina Turner? No viewers, tune in next-week for the next exciting episode of Survivors, featuring the battle of Netto.

_{¹Or at least the humanity that lives within a few miles of Manchester, thanks to the way the BBC is funded.
²Like Holby City, but on during the day, and shitter. If you can imagine that.
³No sniggering at the back now, cook I wrote cook.}