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| The new radio episodes of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy I mentioned in November will air on Radio 4 on Tuesday 21 September 2004 at 6.30pm. Previews and more information here. Also, the long awaited DVD release of Series 2 of “Terry Nation’s Survivors” has been given a provisional release date of 4th October.        Good news on the “Terry Nation’s Survivors” front, it has been confirmed that the second series of Survivors will DEFINITELY be released on DVD and Video later this year. There will be a new Hitch Hiker’s radio series out in 2004 – yes you read right! According to the BBC, the Tertiary Phase of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy will be aired on Radio 4 next year. First off is a 6 parter of Life, the Universe and Everything due in spring 2004 followed by an 8 part adaptation of So Long and Thanks for All the Fish and Mostly Harmless. Hopefully it comes out OK without the oversight of Douglas Adams or Peter Jones as the voice of The Book, they’ve got a lot to live up to. Douglas himself will be playing the part of Agrajag… thanks to some recorded book readings. I Bought myself the new DVD box set of Survivors series 1 last week. It is the first thirteen episodes on four DVDs with several extras and a 36 page booklet. It’s been well done so I hope that it is successful so that we get to see Series 2 and 3 on DVD as well. If you’re not familliar with Survivors it was a BBC TV disaster series from 1975, created by Terry Nation it portrayed a world decimated by an unknown virus which killed off 99% of the worlds population. More information on Survivors here and here. Greg Dyke, director general of the BBC, has announced plans to give the public full access to all the corporation’s programme archives. More at BBC News. Will be very cool if this really happens. There is some sort of Blake’s 7 “25th anniversary extravaganza” on next Sunday on R7 @ 8am and then repeated at 9pm. Can’t find any more info than that really though. ENTERTAINMENT: Zen and the Art of Blake’s Seven If you are a sad git like me you may have seen tv ident galleries before but the TV ARK site has LOADS of Real Media clips of idents, continuity announcements, news intros, series intros, ads, you name it, stacks of stuff from the 70′s & 80′s and good bit of earlier stuff too. The Protect & Survive public info film is as mad & scary as the booklet ever was. In fact all the 70s/80s public information films are pretty mad. There was mention in todays Sunday Times of the possibility of a new Dr Who movie: Dyke calls up Daleks to take on Hollywood – let’s hope it’s better than the last one! It looks like the pilot of the Doctor Who audio adventure, Death Comes to Time, was a success. The BBC has commissioned further episodes which will be posted weekly starting sometime in 2002. Looks like it will still only be available as real audio though, can’t we have mp3 too please? | 
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