DailyMail UK

[...] The show, which was mocked as a “poor man’s Star Trek” for its shoestring effects and scenery as wooden as the acting, was an unlikely hit - with audiences of up to nine million. [...]

Casting has yet to begin for the three main parts of rugged leader Blake, played in the original by Gareth Thomas, his brooding sidekick Avon, played by Paul Darrow, and beautiful but deadly Servalan, originally played by Jacqueline Pearce.

Sean Bean or Ashes To Ashes star Philip Glenister have been tipped as a possible Blake, with Spooks’ Rupert Penry-Jones as Avon and former EastEnder Tamsin Outhwaite as Servalan. [...]

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