Who is number 6

Well break out the penny farthings and start planning that trip to Portmerion. It seems that the gods of television are about to bless us with a remake of that most cultish of cult tv series' The Prisoner. Although the casting remains unconfirmed for the moment, the BBC are reporting that Christopher Eccleston may be up for the role of #6. It's the first I've heard of all this, but I'm definitely curious. Rumours of a new version of the Prisoner have waxed and waned with clockwork precision for a good many years now and I long ago stopped believing that anything would ever come if it. I became a huge fan of The Prisoner when it was repeated on tv in the early nineties, and it's certainly a premise that's ripe for reinvention. Fingers crossed that it'll be able to duplicate the quality of other recent resurrections like Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who. Ecclestone as #6 (if true) would be a good start.

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