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Paradox, Misfits 2 new British Sci-Fi shows?

Bob The Skutter

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Just reading BBC News and noticed this story about a new show called Paradox they've commissioned, which has a snippet of info about an E4 show called Misfits about a group of teenagers who get super powers.
From BBC News

Former EastEnders star Tamzin Outhwaite is to play a detective leading a force investigating crimes committed in the future in a new BBC series.
Paradox, a drama commission from BBC Northern Ireland for BBC One, Paradox begins filming in Manchester in June.
Its lead director will be Simon Cellan Jones, whose previous successes include landmark 1996 drama Our Friends in the North and the recent Generation Kill.
The director promised the show would be "an electrifying white knuckle ride".
'Bold idea'
He said the series "will leave the audience asking themselves dark, complicated questions about fate, the future and who controls it."
Paradox is written by Lizzie Mickery, a former actress who adapted John Buchan's The 39 Steps for the BBC last year.
Ben Stephenson, controller of BBC Drama Commissioning, called the show "a fresh spin on the crime genre" built around "a fantastically bold idea".
Production company Clerkenwell Films previously made supernatural drama Afterlife for ITV1 and the 2007 adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion starring Rupert Penry-Jones.
It is about to start work on Misfits, a comedy drama series for digital channel E4 about teenagers who develop strange superpowers.
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I know it's another one of those "crime drama wrapped in Sci-fi dressing" but I'll check it out.
 
More on Misfits.

From E4 Blog

Misfits is a new E4 drama series about a group of teens on community service, who reluctantly try to save their town after developing superhero powers. Camilla Campbell, the series' Commissioner, tells us about it.

We’re massively excited at Channel 4 Drama to be commissioning Misfits. As the department behind Skins, we really wanted to find another series which is as funny and truthful about being a teenager, but completely different from the world of Skins.

The characters in Misfits have all been given ASBOs because they have refused to conform with society in some way. Their ASBOs are the only thing they have in common – they're forced to spend time together, but don't even particularly like each other at first. Then, following a freak electrical storm where the group are struck by lightning, they slowly begin to realise that they've developed superpowers. Superpowers they didn’t choose or want – powers which reveal each of their deepest, darkest fears.
So the girl who is paranoid about what people think of her, gains the ability to hear people's thoughts. The boy who has always been overlooked by everyone – his family; the people he’s at school with – finds he can make himself invisible. They can’t control their abilities at first, so they find their powers more of a hindrance than a help. But while they just want to finish their community service and get through the challenges of everyday life – relationships, friendships, parents and sex – fate has another task in store for them. Weird things are going on in their town – it’s like life is slowly being sucked out of it – and it becomes clear that they’re the only people who can do anything about it.
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I'd probably check out Paradox, but Misfits just has me thinking of Thermo Man, and I couldn't cope with another $hit British superhero comedy(?)
 
captcalhoun said:
Paradox sounds like a rehash of Crime Traveller.

Misfits sounds interesting.
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Crime Traveller was a potentially good idea, where a usually very good writer tripped himself up through not thinking it through, perhaps because he didn't know science fiction. (I can say that first hand : I interviewed him about it just before it started, and got this nastier and nastier sinking feeling in my stomach as I queried apparent holes in the format he was explaining, thinking that it must have come across wrong and he'd explain it better second time round, and found that he really didn't see the problem: things like 'You can never meet yourself or the universe will explode, but you have to get back to the machine at the moment you turned it on.').
A better thought out version could be good.
 
Actually, if nothing else, this thread has reminded me that I have Crime Traveller sitting around somewhere on DVD, and I still haven't gotten around to rewatching the damned thing!
 
I wonder if Misfits will be anything like No Heroics.

Anyway, I wonder if Paradox will actually look like Generation Kill... although, I think the dude was the second director on the show, not the first.
 
firehawk12 said:
I wonder if Misfits will be anything like No Heroics.

Anyway, I wonder if Paradox will actually look like Generation Kill... although, I think the dude was the second director on the show, not the first.
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I was thinking the same thing, No Heroics meets Skins... hmmm
 
Yeah, I think it could be a decent concept... moreso than "on no we have powers" angst that we got with Claire on Heroes anyway.
 
Angel4576 said:
Actually, if nothing else, this thread has reminded me that I have Crime Traveller sitting around somewhere on DVD, and I still haven't gotten around to rewatching the damned thing!
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If you do rewatch it, watch out for how the production team finally got to grips with the time travel thing.
In episode one, Chloe Annett's character drives home, parks her car, goes into her flat and uses her time machine to go back 24 hours in time... and walks out and drives off in her car (even though it was, 24 hours ago, in the police station car park because she'd driven it to work. It has to be there, as her being in two places at once is a Big Plot Point).
And later... in one of the last episodes, Michael French's character uses the time machine to go back 24 hours... and is surprised that his car isn't there, until he realizes that it wouldn't be there, and gets a bus (or taxi). So they did start thinking it through - but unfortunately, halfway through.
 
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