Doomwatch Project

There was a show in the 1970s called "Doomwatch" which as kind of a precursor to the X-Files (but focusing on scientific and technological threats instead of paranoia and UFOs).

Ian is working with a British independent TV producer developing a new series of this show. This is a TV drama series about four very different scientists on the underside of society. They are concerned with investigating abuses of research and technology. There's a rock-climbing eco-babe and a classy Indian biotechnologist who's developed intelligent software agents based around the Angels and Emanations in the poetry and prophecies of William Blake (and they even look like Blake).

Ian describes it as being "rather strange and dark, in the territory of the X-Files, but no UFOs or supernatural. The British BSE scare is straight out of our brief: scary stuff like that. Only scarier. In the new Doomwatch, the government is as much the enemy as corporate culture."

The pilot episode, "Winter Angel", finished shooting at the end of September 1998 and went through post-production at Working Title Television. The series is being done as a series of four two-hour TV movies. The pilot is directed by Roy Battersby who's done work on "Cracker" and "Inspector Morse" and is about misuse of power in the nuclear industry. Future episodes include a nanotechnology smuggling story, a computer virus that can jump from a screen to the human brain and a story invovling biochips made from protein.

The first episode, "Winter Angel", was broadcast in Britain on Channel 5 at 21:00 GMT on Tuesday 7th December 1999.

Forthcoming / In production

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