A reboot of the 1970's British Space Opera cult classic "Blakes Seven" is officially in development. Blakes Seven was set in  a dystopian future, in which a band of rebels opposed the totalitarian Terran Federation. It ran for four seasons each of thirteen fifty-minute episodes. Initially conceived as "the dirty dozen in space" if has much the same feel of a small group of flawed heroes opposition a huge, powerful and tyrannical state as the much more recent Star Wars project, Andor. There were some brilliant acting performances, particularly from Gareth Thomas as the eponymous hero Roj Blake, an idealist who leads the crusade against the evil Federation for the first two seasons, Paul Darrow as Kerr Avon, an apparently cynical and coldly rational computer genius who takes over from Blake as leader of the rebels for the third and fourth seasons, and Jacqueline Pearce as Supreme Commander (later President) Servalan, the show's main antagonist. According to De...