In that article there was a brief comparison of Blake’s 7 with Andor, a show that I’ve written about here before, and while superficially I guess there is—the main characters of both series are involved in a rebellion against an authoritarian galactic regime—I think the comparisons really stop there.
This isn’t the first time a Blake’s 7 reboot has been announced, and the late Paul Darrow, who played Avon in the series, tried in vain to get it rebooted (or rather: a new series set 25 years after the events of the final episode of the original series) in the early 2000s, and there have been announcements of other production companies obtaining the necessary rights every few years since then, but nothing has ever materialised.
I suspect this latest reboot attempt will meet the same fate, unless the TV executives have spotted an increased demand for shows about small groups of rebels attempting to overthrow despotic regimes because of … *gestures broadly at everything*.
In one of those earlier pieces about Andor I did write that the stories we tell ourselves about the world are important, because somehow they must offer us some hope for a better future, so maybe that demand is growing?
