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"On Wednesday, October 9, a new version of The Tomorrow People will debut on US television, over forty years after the show&amp;#039;s first iteration debuted on ITV in the UK. Created by Roger Price, the original series premiered on April 30, 1973, kicking off with episode one of five-part adventure &amp;#039;Slaves of Jedikiah&amp;#039; and launching a science fiction franchise that would take in two television shows, comics, novels, a bevy of merchandise and one (sadly truncated) audio series. But with a third TV take on the property - from The CW - now just days away from its own launch, how does that original &amp;#039;70s series opener stand up? Today, the Week in Geek finds out...  &amp;gt; Agents of SHIELD, IT Crowd, Atlantis: TV&amp;#039;s Big Geek Weekend &amp;gt; Atlantis: Meet the stars of BBC One&amp;#039;s new Saturday night drama The Tomorrow People explores much the same themes as Marvel&amp;#039;s X-Men comics, with the emergence of super-powers serving as analogy for the changes teenagers experience during puberty. The show follows an ever-changing roster of young faces who represent the next leap in human evolution, referring to themselves as &amp;#039;Homo Superior&amp;#039; or by the somewhat less lofty term, &amp;#039;Tomorrow People&amp;#039;. The Tomorrow People was originally devised by ITV as a rival-of-sorts for the BBC&amp;#039;s own sci-fi hit Doctor Who - then approaching its 10th anniversary - but its first episode is far more juvenile in tone than the Who of the period. While Doctor Who has always prided itself on being a &amp;#039;family show&amp;#039; - a Saturday night adventure series with something for everyone - The Tomorrow People is very much a children&amp;#039;s series, aired on Mondays as after-school fare. Not a criticism, just an observation.   And while the stars of The CW&amp;#039;s new remake - including Revenge&amp;#039;s Robbie Amell and Mad Men&amp;#039;s Peyton List - are already being tipped as rising stars, episode one of &amp;#039;Slaves of Jedikiah&amp;#039; suffers from a common pitfall of shows with a young cast - performances veering from the solid to the cringeworthy. Still, these flaws aside, The Tomorrow People&amp;#039;s first instalment actually holds up rather well - at barely 25 minutes in length, the episode rattles along and you find yourself drawn into the dangerous world of John, Carol, Kenny and Stephen... The show&amp;#039;s strength lies in its thrilling premise - you can imagine its young audience back in the &amp;#039;70s, dreaming that they too might one day &amp;#039;break out&amp;#039; and join the ranks of the Tomorrow People.  There&amp;#039;s a reason that the X-Men franchise is such a long-lasting money-spinner - the idea that any one of us could be a superhero-in-waiting is irresistible, and it&amp;#039;s this same conceit that allows the original Tomorrow People to overcome any flaws in its execution. The new Tomorrow People is from Vampire Diaries mastermind Julie Plec and Arrow co-creator Greg Berlanti, who are both self-confessed fans of the original series. So let&amp;#039;s hope that this talented pair will keep what worked about ITV&amp;#039;s Tomorrow People and, with the benefit of modern technology and four decades of hindsight, improve upon what didn&amp;#039;t. Are you excited for the Tomorrow People US remake? Were a fan of the original show? Share your thoughts on the franchise below! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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