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31 March 2018
title: Thunderbirds Are Go (TV series) text: 2015 and concluding 23 January 2016. A second series was greenlit on December 18, 2014 and broadcast between 22 October 2016–7 January 2017 and 30 September–16 December 2017. A third series was confirmed on 5 May 2016 and premiered on 31 March 2018. Set in the year 2060, "Thunderbirds Are Go" follows the exploits of the Tracy brothers: Scott, Virgil, John, Gordon, and Alan. Together, they form the front-line of International Rescue (IR), an organisation dedicated to saving people from disaster using technologically advanced machines for land, sea, air and space rescue. The most important of these are five vehicles title: Thunderbirds (TV series) text: least 66 other countries. Periodically repeated, it was adapted for radio in the early 1990s and has influenced many TV programmes and other media. As well as inspiring various merchandising campaigns, the series has been followed by two feature-length film sequels ("Thunderbirds Are Go" and "Thunderbird 6", released in 1966 and 1968 respectively), a 2004 live-action film adaptation and a mimed stage show tribute. The second of two TV remakes, the computer-animated "Thunderbirds Are Go", premiered in 2015, in honour of the original show's 50th anniversary. Widely considered to be the Andersons' most popular and commercially successful series, "Thunderbirds" has title: Thunderbirds Are Go (TV series) text: broadcast deal with Australia's free-to-air Nine Network (9Go!). The second series premiered on 13 November 2016 on 9Go! The third series move to the ABC and premiered on ABC Me from 2 June 2018. On 28 April 2015, ITV Studios Global Entertainment announced that Tohokushinsha Film Corporation had acquired the television and licensing rights for "Thunderbirds Are Go". The Japan broadcast for the first series was premiered in NHK (NHK General TV) on 2016-08-05 (as "サンダーバード ARE GO"). French broadcasts were premiered in September 2015 on Canal J (as "Thunderbirds"), followed by Gulli later this year (as "Thunderbirds"), with Nelvana title: Thunderbirds (TV series) text: PolyGram and its subsidiary Channel 5. Following its acquisition by Carlton International Media in 1999, "Thunderbirds" was digitally remastered for the release of the first DVD versions in 2000. Blu-ray Disc editions followed in 2008. "Thunderbirds" has been followed by two film sequels, a live-action film adaptation, two animated TV remakes and several re-edited presentations for TV broadcast and home video. The second of the remakes, "Thunderbirds Are Go", premiered on ITV in 2015, the 50th anniversary year of the original. The feature-length film sequels "Thunderbirds Are Go" and "Thunderbird 6" were released in 1966 and 1968. The first was title: Thunderbirds Are Go (TV series) text: the 1960s science fiction television series "Thunderbirds" was approved by co-creator Gerry Anderson when the founder of Weta Workshop, Richard Taylor, visited him while he was working on "New Captain Scarlet" at Pinewood Studios at the time. On 4 February 2013, ITV Global Entertainment and Pukeko Pictures officially announced the revival with under the title "Thunderbirds Are Go!" Production began in June 2013 at Weta Workshop, while the principal voice cast was announced on 30 September 2014. Each series consists of 26 episodes split in two parts. The first series aired between 4 April–20 June 2015, resuming on 31 October