Dead Celebrities Thread

[DoctorStrangelove]

The lady was a bit of a goer apparently, from an interview I saw some decades ago.

Very sad.

[sbakoola]

Only seems like yesterday when she was on the tv seducing Avon with her extravagant space opera evening gowns. RIP sexy lady. Also where is that Blakes 7 reboot we keep getting promised ?

[DaveB]

Only seems like yesterday when she was on the tv seducing Avon with her extravagant space opera evening gowns. RIP sexy lady. Also where is that Blakes 7 reboot we keep getting promised ?

Dead in the water.

Television
During April 2000 producer Andrew Mark Sewell announced that he had bought the rights to Blake's 7 from the estate of Terry Nation, and was planning to produce a TV movie set 20 years after the finale of the original series.[73] During July 2003, Sewell announced that he, Paul Darrow and Simon Moorhead had formed a consortium called 'B7 Enterprises' that had acquired the rights and was planning a television miniseries budgeted at between five and six million US dollars. Darrow would play Avon and the series was to be televised during early 2005, depending on " ... many factors, not least financing".[74] Paul Darrow subsequently left the project during December 2003, citing "artistic differences".[75]

B7 Enterprises announced on 31 October 2005 that it had appointed Drew Kaza as non-executive chairman, and that it was working on two Blake's 7 projects. Blake's 7: Legacy was to be a two-part, three-hour mini-series, which would be written by Ben Aaronovitch and D. Dominic Devine. Blake's 7: The Animated Adventures was to be a 26-part children's animated adventure series written by Aaronovitch, Andrew Cartmel, Marc Platt and James Swallow.[76] In an interview with Doctor Who Magazine, writer and producer Matthew Graham said that he had been involved in discussions to revive Blake's 7. Graham's concept was that a group of young rebels would rescue Avon, who had been kept cryogenically frozen by Servalan, and then roam the galaxy in a new ship named Liberator.[77]

On 24 April 2008, television station Sky1 announced that it had commissioned two 60-minute scripts for a potential series, working alongside B7 Productions.[78] On 4 August 2010, the station said it had decided not to commission the series. B7 Productions said the decision was " ... obviously disappointing", but that the development process has resulted in the " ... dynamic reinvention of this branded series". It said it was confident it would find another partner to develop a new version of Blake’s 7 for television.[79]
During July 2012, Deadline reported that a remake for US television networks was being developed by the independent studio Georgeville Television.[80] The Syfy network announced on 22 August that Joe Pokaski would develop the script and Martin Campbell would direct the new remake.[81]

On 9 April 2013, the BBC reported that a new series of Blake's 7 would be broadcast by SyFy.[82] Other media reported that a full-series order of thirteen episodes had been placed.[83]
During 2015, the Nation Estate ended relations with Andrew Mark Sewell and the Blake's 7 licence was awarded to Big Finish Productions. On 4 April 2016, it announced The Liberator Chronicles Volume 12, due to be released later the same month, which will be the final entry in Big Finish's long-running collection of audio box-sets based on Blake's 7.

[original PM]

The lady was a bit of a goer apparently, from an interview I saw some decades ago.

Very sad.

I recall my dad had a thing for Servalan - think it was the boots n leather.

As I was a mere 5 when it first aired I probably did not really understand.

[greenlake]

RIP Burt Reynolds.



Burt Reynolds, Movie Star Who Played It for Grins, Dies at 82 - The Hollywood Reporter

[quackhandle]

As a kid I loved watching the outtakes from Cannonball Run, can't help but love that high pitched gleeful laugh.

RIP Burton Reynolds

qh

[vetran]

RIP Burt Reynolds.



Burt Reynolds, Movie Star Who Played It for Grins, Dies at 82 - The Hollywood Reporter

sad he was a cool dude.

He was funny in "My name is Earl" among other things.

[mudskipper]

Johnny Kingdom

https://news.sky.com/story/wildlife-...-land-11492541

Ouch.

[Lockhouse]

Fenella Fielding. Frying tonight.

[Dark Black]

Fenella Fielding. Frying tonight.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/45409341

and...