This (entirely unofficial and independent) blog provides up-to-date news about the production, publicity, transmission and reception of the BBC post-apocalyptic TV series Survivors. The first series of the new Survivors was broadcast in the UK in November and December 2008. A second series of Survivors was commissioned before broadcast of series one had completed. It is expected that the BBC will announce the transmission dates for Survivors series two shortly.

Survivors – the classic post-apocalyptic British television drama of the 1970s – was originally created by TV script writer Terry Nation in the early 1970s. Three series of the show were broadcast between 1975 and 1977, comprising 38 episodes in total.

Nation left the programme after the completion of series one in 1975, but went on to publish a tie-novelisation which was first published in 1976.

The BBC’s revival of Survivors is based on (and inspired by) Nation’s Survivors novel, which revisits and develops the storylines of Nation’s early first series scripts, before diverging dramatically from the on-screen story of Survivors to offer a startlingly different interpretation of the show’s possible evolution.