News Blake’s 7 Cult Sci-Fi Series Blake’s 7 May Be Getting a Reboot A space opera about resisting a totalitarian empire? Sign me up! By Molly Templeton | Published on January 20, 2026 Image: BBC Comment 0 Share New Share Image: BBC One is always a bit suspicious of reboot news these days; for every “No, really, a new Buffy is happening” there’s a “Sam Esmail’s doomed Battlestar Galactica.” But this is a fairly interesting prospect: Director Peter Hoar (who did beloved The Last of Us episode “Long, Long Time”) has teamed up with Matthew Bouch (A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder) and Jason Haigh-Ellery (producer of several Doctor Who podcasts) to open what Deadline calls a “genre-based” independent production company, Multitude Productions. Deadline says the new company has picked up “a wealth of IP” that includes Blake’s 7, which ran for four seasons on BBC1. Those four seasons ended in 1981, so it’s been a few years since the show’s time. The series was created by Terry Nation (who also created Doctor Who’s Daleks) and focused on a political dissident leading a rebellion against the Terran Federation, which dominated our planet and many colonized planets. Reading a synopsis, a person might certainly leap to some conclusions about how now would be a prime time to revisit this series. “The first episode of Blake’s 7 was a procedural drama about a fascist state framing a political dissident for child molestation,” explains a Guardian appreciation of the show written for its 40th anniversary. It was, at the time, rather low-budget, in contrast with its high-minded themes. A prestige reboot could perhaps upgrade the former while sticking with the latter. And there have been some other feints toward new versions of the series: In 2000, a film reboot was announced; in 2003, original star Paul Darrow planned to make a miniseries; in 2008, a “potential event series” was in development with the channel Sky One. In the early 2010s, the Syfy channel was working on a remake. Nothing came of any of these. Director Hoar told Deadline, “Those shows got into my veins. I could tell they didn’t have money but I was able to compartmentalize and enjoy the ride knowing that the sets wobbled.” He also compared Blake’s 7 to Andor, saying that the Star Wars show’s success is less about its budget than about its “integrity, wit and sophistication.” You can get a peek at said low-budget effects in this BBC promo video. The Blake’s 7 reboot does not have a network attached—yet. Hoar’s colleague Matthew Bouch said he would “love it to go to the BBC.”[end-mark] The post Cult Sci-Fi Series <i>Blake’s 7</i> May Be Getting a Reboot appeared first on Reactor.