WE’RE STANDING IN THE shadow of the snout of a dirty, scorched spaceship, its gangplank lowered. You can easily imagine Firefly’s Malcolm Reynolds striding out. Zoom out from a tight focus, however, and the illusion’s broken. This is just a small slice of set – a place to shoot exits and entrances, aided by bluescreen. Behind it, across a road, humdrum residential housing stretches out on either side.
It’s February 2020, and SFX is on the backlot at Manchester’s aptly named Space Studios. Last time we visited it was home to Sky One’s near-future road race series Curfew. Now it’s hosting a space-faring sci-fi show from the same production company, Moonage Pictures.
A short stroll away, a main street set has been constructed. Lined with market stalls, its buildings are painted in Mediterranean shades of green, orange and turquoise. A menu on a wall listing dishes en français further suggests a European influence. If it sounds like a possible holiday destination that’s only because we haven’t mentioned the tyre-tracked mud underfoot, boarded-up windows and bullet holes. Welcome to the planet Skov.
It’s just one of the colony worlds featured in Intergalactic, whose eight-episode run centres on a bunch of escaped prisoners on the lam in a stolen ship, pursued by Earth authorities as “enemies of the state”. Thinking “Sounds a bit Blake’s 7”? You’re not alone. But there are plenty of differences from Terry Nation’s ’70s space saga – not least that these convicts are all female.
THE GREAT ESCAPE
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة April 2021 من SFX.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة April 2021 من SFX.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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PURE AND SIMPLE
IN THE FINAL PART OF OUR EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW, SHOWRUNNER RUSSELL T DAVIES TALKS RELAUNCHING DOCTOR WHO
TO CAP IT ALL OFF
CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF THE BBC SERIES THE TRIPODS
FRENCH REVOLUTION
THE WALKING DEAD SPIN-OFF SHOWRUNNER DAVID ZABEL ON BEING GIVEN THE TOUGH TASK OF REUNITING DARYL AND CAROL IN FRANCE
SILENT KILLERS
THE DIRECTOR OF HOLLYWOOD'S SPEAK NO EVIL REMAKE ON HORROR, COMEDY AND JAMES MCAVOY
BRING OUT YOUR DEAD
THE GHOST WITH THE MOST RETURNS FINALLY - IN BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE
TEENAGE DREAM
JOE LOCKE HITS THE ROAD RUNNING
MOB RULE THE PENGUIN
GOTHAM'S UP FOR GRABS IN BRUISING NEW CRIME SAGA BUT WHERE IS THE BATMAN?
SEASON OF THE WITCH
AS MARVEL TELEVISION CARVES OUT A NEW PATH FOR ITSELF, WE SPEAK TO CREATOR JAC SCHAEFFER, PLUS A CAST OF STARS LED BY KATHRYN HAHN AND JOE LOCKE, ABOUT THE MAGIC OF WANDAVISION'S SPIN-OFF AGATHA ALL ALONG
Ghouls Allowed
Even silence can't save you at this year's Halloween Horror Nights
Those '70s Shows
James Swallow takes a trip back in time with his new Space: 1999 and UFO novellas