What Sci-Fi Show Would You Watch?

[Ravenseye]

Ok. What shows would you want to see developed for television as a series, not movie or mini-series? It can be a remake or an original?

My first thoughts are the following...

A live action 'Tripods Trilogy' series by John Christopher. Start it at the begining of the White Mountains and stay faithful to the book. If you make it a good character driven show you could have that thing run 3-6 years at a minimum and still be good and faithful to the books.

A live action 'Starblazers' series. Remember Starblazers? 'We're off to outer space! We're leaving mother earth! To save the human race! OUR STAR BLAZERS!' I really enjoyed it as a kid and I think it'd be a great ongoing series. Pretty cool CGI would make the battleship in space thing work and they could spend multiple seasons just getting to Iskandar.

[YankeyMCC]

1. Tripods

isn't a bad idea.

But I'd rather see something more original. The new BSG is very good but I'd much rather see someone try and create a whole new tradition. Like was tried with Babylon5, Farscape, Firefly.

Perhaps something in the "nearer" future. Early colonization of Moon or Mars. Maybe something a little further along where humans are all over the solar system. Something that will give the writers the opportunity to explore challenges of space travel that are not very different from what we face now when we talk about going to Mars, etc... and how humans react to that, and also be a good setting for frontier type stories, or self-reliance, explore questions of where humanity is going but by keeping it bounded in the solar system keeping those questions in a context closer to the lives of the audience.

[lazarus]

2. alternatively

instead of near future, we could do far future, space empire stuff.

Vernor Vinge, Asimov, that sort of thing.

I think "Across Realtime" would make a neat miniseries, for instance. One episode per chapter, something like that.

[YankeyMCC]

3. Foundation

stories would be outstanding.

[wyldwolf]

4. A live action StarBlazers was in the works at one time

...was being funded by Disney.

[Swede]

5. Alfred Bester's "The Stars my Destination" would be cool.

Gully Foyle is my name,
and Terra is my nation.
Outerspace is my dwelling place,
and the stars my destination.

[RaleighNCDem]

6. I LOVED that book!

That would be a great series.