Former Dawson’s Creek writers Greg Berlanti and Julie Plec are teaming up to reboot the classic U.K. series The Tomorrow People.
The pilot will be produced for the CW, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The Tomorrow People was created by Roger Price and tells the story of young people around the world who represent the next stage in human evolution who possess special powers, including the ability to teleport and communicate with one another telepathically. Together, they work to defeat the forces of evil.
The original series ran from 1973-79 on ITV with Price producing a revival in for Tetra Films and Reeves Entertainment that ran on Nickelodeon between 1992 and 1995. A third version ran between 2001 and 2007 as a series of audio plays for Big Finish Productions.
Berlanti, whose freshman drama Arrow received a full-season order at the CW earlier this fall, will executive produce alongside The Vampire Diaries co-showrunner Plec.
Phil Klemmer is writing the pilot script.
I fell in love with the original British series when I used to watch it on PBS as a kid, and was giddy when I could finally get them on DVD.
Now, if only they’d release the Nickelodeon series on DVD, this news for me could be a full-on SQUEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
(hope Ben’s got his earplugs in, because Sam’s not the only one who can squee in that dog-whistle range)
I know I’m always wrong in thinking this, but…I thought I was the only one on the planet who’d ever heard of “The Tomorrow People”. I was certainly the only one in the neighborhood who did. Still am, probably.
Nope, I became a huge fan in the early 80s, but I don’t think I ever saw all the episodes in order until I found out that A&E produced DVD box sets and I got my hands on them out about
10-12 years ago(make that 8-10 years ago).Same thing with Sapphire & Steel; I’d watched episodes of that on PBS around the same time as Tomorrow People, but I don’t think I ever saw them in order, or even in series order until the DVD set came out.
I do believe that fewer people knew about the Nickelodeon reboot than know about the original series, though. All these years, and not one peep about that series coming out on DVD. There was another Canadian SF series on around the same time, Deepwater Black… I don’t think I’ve ever seen that one out either, and some of those kids went on to do some work in some other big SF series
I thought I had heard something ring through my head the other day…
I too am very excited about this… I haven’t seen it in YEARS so to see CW reboot it is very exciting!
However I must also agree in that I would *LOVE* to see the Nickelodeon version released, but more importantly I would love to get my hands on the original ITV series!!!
Ben, the original ITV series has been available on DVD for years… I got my sets 8-9 or so years ago. They were produced by A&E around the same time they published that set for the original “The Prisoner” and for “Sapphire & Steel”.
Hmm. Made that “had been”. Seems like Set 3 is out of print now.
I’ve added Amazon links to them in this post, and I really should add them to the Slice of SciFi Store, too.