Category Archives: Interviews
Q&A session with Trevor Hoyle
Trevor Hoyle worked as an actor, an advertising copywriter, a lecturer in creative writing and presented the arts and entertainments programme “What’s On” for Granada TV before becoming a full-time writer, mainly of novels and short stories. He won the … Continue Reading…
Vivienne Cozens
Vivienne Cozens is a highly respected director of theatre, TV drama and documentaries and corporate productions. Her credits include Brookside, Fair City, Grange Hill, Emmerdale, Fraggle Rock and Eastenders. She also directed the popular episodes Games and Sand from the … Continue Reading…
Tony Attwood
Tony Attwood’s first science fiction work was Blake’s 7: The Programme Guide in 1981. This was followed by the novel Afterlife in 1982 which followed on from the events of the final episode of Blake’s 7. He also wrote the … Continue Reading…
Tony Attwood
What led to you becoming writer? I started my career as a musician and I thought I was going to become this great gift to worldwide music [laughs]. Of course, as in 99.9% of cases that didn’t happen. For the … Continue Reading…
Tim Plester
The 2004 Edinburgh International Film Festival saw the premiere of a short comedy sci-fi film that paid tribute to our favourite series – Blake’s Junction 7. Since then the film has received only limited screenings but has won rave reviews. … Continue Reading…
The Making Of Rescue
An Unexpected Return When the third season of Blake’s 7 finished shooting, everyone involved believed it was the final end for the series. Terminal had been planned as the series finale and brought the series to a suitably downbeat conclusion. … Continue Reading…
The Making Of Redemption
The Script Planning for Season 2 of Blake’s 7 commenced in the spring of 1978. The first season had been written entirely by creator Terry Nation but for Season 2 script editor Chris Boucher elected to bring new writers into … Continue Reading…
The Making Of Killer
Robert Holmes With Terry Nation having written the whole of the first series, script editor Chris Boucher had to find additional writers for the second series, and one of the first names on his list was Robert Holmes. Holmes was … Continue Reading…
The Making of City At The Edge Of The World
Scripting Co-ordinating ongoing story arcs during Season 2 had proved to be an arduous task and this led to the production team focussing more on stand-alone stories during Season 3. There was also a deliberate effort to shine the spotlight … Continue Reading…
The Making of Animals
The fourth season of Blake’s 7 was commissioned very late in the day and Chris Boucher had a major struggle to get enough scripts together for the first block of filming. To save time he commissioned writers familiar with the … Continue Reading…
