Landmark TV Film 'Threads' To Get Series Remake

The one-two punch of Stephen Graham and Erin Doherty in A Thousand Blows and Adolescence has been a small triumph here in the States, with the latter hitting record viewership in the U.K. and made available to all middle schools to stream for free by the Prime Minister. Should it be commissioned, A Thousand Blows already has a second season planned. However, like Boiling Point before it, Adolescence was envisioned as a limited stand-alone four-episode, close-ended series. Graham has gamely made the proper noises about the possibility of a Season 2. Still, the chances of seeing a "spiritual" successor are far better, like the next series from the production studio, Threads.

For those under the age of 40, Threads does not refer to the failing Twitter competitor launched by another idiot billionaire; it was a TV movie initially released by the BBC in 1984. Viewed in America as "the U.K.'s answer to The Day After," Threads followed the stories of two Sheffield families living through a nuclear bomb being dropped on London and showing in graphic, accurate detail, the medical, economic, social, and environmental consequences of a nuclear war. Warp Films, which produced the Graham-Philip Barantini series, is Sheffield-based, and the subject's topicality only grows more significant by the day.

The series is not contracted to Netflix; Warp Films is making the series on spec, assuming that the original fame in the U.K. will be enough to garner interest from U.K. and U.S. distributors.