"Space: 1999," an iconic 1970s British series that was syndicated in the U.S., is being redeveloped by ITV Studios America and HDFilms as "Space: 2099." HDFilms prexy Jace Hall is exec producing the project. Hall recently exec produced ABC's "V," another reincarnation of a science-fiction series from a previous decade. Read more (576kb, PDF)
Space: 1999 is a British science-fiction television series that ran for two seasons and originally aired from 1975 to 1978. In the opening episode, nuclear waste from Earth stored on the Moon's far side explodes in a catastrophic accident on 13 September 1999, knocking the Moon out of orbit and sending it and the 311 inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha hurtling uncontrollably into space.