[tv show] BBC to reboot Tomorrow's World for one-off live special

[Arthur]

The one-off special will be broadcast on 22 November 2018 on BBC Four.

 

Source: www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/nov/03/bbc-to-reboot-tomorrows-world-for-one-off-live-special

 

The BBC is reviving its science and technology show Tomorrow’s World, 15 years after it was axed.

 

The popular series is making a comeback, with two of its original presenters Maggie Philbin and Howard Stableford, for a live special this month, which Philbin said was timely given “technology is moving faster than ever”.

 

The show is being updated for modern audiences, with Dr Hannah Fry joining the line-up, plus the 90-minute live show will be interactive.

 

As well as looking to the future, the show will examine its archive to see how some of the inventions it featured have fared. Those include driverless cars, robots, microsurgery and the Sinclair C5, the electric trike invented by Sir Clive Sinclair, which his nephew Grant has updated and will demonstrate.

 

The live show will be filmed in Glasgow and air on BBC Four. Cassian Harrison, the channel’s controller, said: “Tomorrow’s World stands as one of the BBC’s most celebrated programmes. It introduced generations to the cutting edge of new technology with wit, warmth and sometimes unintentional humour.”

 

The original show ran for almost 40 years on BBC One from 1965.

 

Harrison said it would be for “a once-only live special, to remind us all how far we’ve come, and to explore where we might still go”. Fans will hope that with the fashion for TV revivals, after the success of Doctor Who and Strictly Come Dancing, it may have future potential.

[hardtailstar]

Hopefully they show the clips where there is half of me on TV!!

 

Went to a Tomorrows World Live when I was in school and was in the audience for one bit and watched it on TV when it was on and only half of me was in shot!