Apparently 26 new half-hour episodes will be coming out, featuring CGI from Weta and "live-action model sets". Not quite sure what that means, but here's hoping it manages to pack as much wonderment into the episodes in 2014 as the original did (to my eyes) back in the mid-60s.
Full story: http://www.itv.com/news/2013-02-04/thunderbirds-are-go-again/
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After Gerry Anderson died, I watched Thunderbirds Are Go! again. I wonder if the new show will spend as much time on the ship components being attached prior to launch. I also wonder why I enjoyed those scenes so much when they should have been deathly boring!
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Because they were so, inutterably, COOL.
Every kid who spent hours drawing jets and rocket ships found a kindred spirit in Gerry Anderson. And, yes, that techno-fetishism is going to be a challenge for any new series, mostly to find some way to wow a new audience.
I wonder if this isn't so much new episodes as a reboot.
Oh, I'm assuming it's a reboot, to at least some degree.
Undoubtedly. We can't expect a new series to pick up where the old one left off, seeing as how we can't remember more than a few isolated scenes from the original (if that).
One could, like the move a few years back (a horrid thing, but stay with me) simply generically continue the story. You don't have to have an origin tale (any more than the original series had an origin tale). You just know that Jeff Tracy and his sons* do International Rescues and build from there. Any backstory or references to previous occurrences get explained as they come up.
*I would be shocked if none of the Tracy pilots in the reboot were female.
(My review of the 2004 Thunderbirds movie, btw: https://hill-kleerup.org/blog/2004/12/20/wdw_day_1_adden.html)