Survivors Links
Interviews
- Interview with Total Sci-Fi
- BBC Interview - Survivors
- BBC Interview with Zoe Tapper about her role as Dr Anya in Series Two of Survivors
Multimedia
- BBC Press release for Series 1 - Dr Anya Raczynski
- Birmingham Mail Article - Survivors Series 2
- Birmingham Post Article - Filming Survivors in Birmingham
- After The World Ends - a review from Tonight (South African Entertainment Magazine)
- SFX Magazine (Issue 191) article about Survivors Series Two
- SciFiNow (Issue 36) article about Survivors Series Two
- SFX Magazine preview of Series 2
- Worlds Apart - the unofficial and unauthorised guide to the BBC's remake of Survivors
- Ratings (UK) - the UK ratings of the episodes for Series 2
- Reviews (UK) - UK reviews of the episodes for Series 2
Survivors (both Series) are available to buy as a DVD box set (UK) from all good resellers. It's also available through our online Shop.
Survivors Press Material
In the run-up to tomorrow night's episode of Survivors - the series start - more press material has been published including another video interview with Zoë.
Links to the press articles are as follows:
RTÉ Entertainment features an interview with Max Beesley:
Actor Max Beesley talks about the return for a second series of BBC One's 'Survivors' in which his character, Tom, suddenly finds himself in charge of the survivors trying to save Greg after he is shot and rescue Anya and Al when they become trapped in a burning hospital. As the series progress Tom increasingly finds himself at odds with Greg over his violent tendencies and his past crimes
The Manchester Evening News has a general article about Survivors and begins:
Survivors: Hope Never Dies
Ian Wylie
January 11, 2010
“HOPE never dies,” says the postcard in the reception area of The Midland Hotel.
If 99 per cent of the world’s population had been killed by a flu virus, would there be hope for you? Would you help others, or grab a gun?
Those questions continue in the second series of hit TV drama Survivors, which returns tomorrow night in the wake of the real life swine flu pandemic.
The fictional story so far: Food and water are in short supply, with no electricity, gas, communications, medical care, police or government.
The BBC News website has an interview with Julie Graham (Abby) about the second series, which begins:
Survivors cast survive swine flu
By Tim Masters
Entertainment correspondent, BBC News
The post-apocalyptic drama Survivors returns this week, with the cast and crew counting themselves fortunate that 2009's swine flu outbreak didn't wreck the making of the second series.
"Amazingly, we were filming in the Midlands where all the swine flu was happening," says actress Julie Graham, who plays the heroine Abby Grant.
And finally, showbiz and television website Digital Spy features an interview with Zoë as part of their Survivors Interview series
Their interview begins:
Tube Talk's 'Survivors' Week: Zoe Tapper
Monday, January 11 2010, 06:35 GMT
By Dan French, US TV Editor
First we gave you Nicholas Gleaves, then we offered up Robyn Addison, and now we present to you... Zoe Tapper!
Tapper's alter-ego Anya was last seen toying with Tom (cue death stares from Sarah), skirting around her somewhat ambiguous sexuality and generally playing nurse to the walking wounded. But what's in store for her in series two? What are you waiting for?
WORLDS APART: the unofficial and unauthorised guide to the BBC's remake of SURVIVORS
The Survivorsbbctv blog announced yesterday the forthcoming publication of a new guidebook on the BBC’s remake of Survivors, written by the author of the blog and published by Classic TV Press. Full details here.
Author: Rich Cross
Format: Paperback (290 pages approx.)
Published: March 2010
Recommended Retail Price: £14.99
Short Video Clip From S2
From the BBC Survivors website a short clip from S2:
Tom, Anya and Al do a mad dash around a collapsing hospital collecting supplies. Can they get out in time ?
Survivors Video Interview
From the BBC, a brief video interview with Zoë, where she delves into Anya's character from Series 1 and drops a few hints as to what romance lies ahead between herself and Tom.
(Apologies for the sound quality - it's a little quiet!)
TV Guide Front Cover
Total TV Guide magazine has a full front cover article of the Survivors for next week. The cover is below:
Press Coverage for S2
Press coverage ahead of next week’s transmission of episode one of series two of Survivors continues apace, both online and in print.
Amongst the new online features are: ‘Survivors to be grittier and darker in season two‘ (SciFiPulse, 5 January); a cast interview feature in TV Choice magazine (5 January) with a different promo shot of Abby on the home page; What’s On TV offers a preview of episode one and episode two, and a gallery of (very small versions of) promotional BBC stills.
On the SFX news blog, Dave Golder has posted an extremely positive review of the first two episodes of series two (note the review is – inevitably – full of ***SPOILERS***) which, by kind permission is reproduced here.
There’s also a new Survivors listings page on the BBC One Programmes website.
BBC Trailer for Series 2
This is the trailer currently being aired on BBC channels for Series 2 on 12th January 2010.