The New Tomorrow

Click here to check out a new article from the German magazine ‘Popcorn’, it looks pretty cool.
From the looks of things, KIKA will be showing The New Tomorrow in 2006! Fantastic news! Correct me if I’m wrong, but the person who wrote the article seems to think Faygar is a boy named Kwarli! Hmm…

Check out the downloads section for more new New Tomorrow pics, featuring Sky (Nick Fenton), Cass (Paige Shand-Haami), Faygar (Zoë Robins) and Leanne (Katie Alexander). Images (c) Cloud 9 Ltd.

I was going to write a post about episode four, but to be honest, not much happened in it, lol, it was a bit of a slow one… Discard Magdar becomes Gwyn’s slave and Erin comes face to face, or should that be face to metal, with a ‘machine’. Phew, a close one. Sky and Zora meanwhile get closer with a bit of fishing… Oh and little red riding hood, aka Dan, leaves the Ants.

Thanks to Jessica/Julia for the article link/scan.

Another new article out in the UK, from The Sun newspapers TV Guide. Click here to view it, cheers to Adam for sharing that scan Article has a diddy interview with Nick Fenton, who plays that travelling geezer Sky.

Lol, that group pic of the cast, I put that up only last night as the opener for tribe heaven.

I found two articles today, in UK TV listing magazines. Scans of both can be viewed by clicking the links below. Be sure to get your own copy of these mags this week! (Well, that’s if you want to, lol).

1. Radio Times : Kid’s TV : The New Tomorrow
Features big pic of Faygar and info on the series.
Magazine price: 90p

2. TV Choice : Kid’s Zone : Kid’s Rule!
Features pic of Sky, info and brief episode synopsis.
Magazine price: 30p

They’re not much, but it’s all I can find! If you find any others please do let me know

Scroll down to read another article from an Australian sci-fi website which I also posted here today, plus info on video clip downloads. Cheers!

From http://www.frontiermagazine.net/ – Yay a sci-fi-ish perspective!

The Tribe, A New Tomorrow
Written by Catherine Jemma
Tuesday, 20 September 2005
Channel 7, Saturdays 11am

Well I have now had the chance to see the first (TV station compile, double-ep) episode of the series which started at 11 am on Saturday 17th of September.

Clearly this series (The Tribe, A New Tomorrow) is more a spin-off than a sequel/sixth season, to the previous five season run of The Tribe.
It would appear that the target audience are about 8 to 13 year-olds (ie even younger than was intended for the original The Tribe). I had been of the belief that this new series was intended for a much older audience and would be starring the same regulars, who by now are obviously all young adults (originally The Tribe started in 1999, starring mostly teens and intended primarily for teens).

As such I couldn’t really recommend this series at all for adult sci-fi fans. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not dissing it. I wish it all the best screening to its target audience. I’ll probably keep half an eye on it over the next few episodes, just to see how it develops anyway.

So far all new faces, and reference is made to “The Mall Rats” being quite some time in the past (one might guess 40 or 50 or a hundred years or more even).

Going by the end credits, Channel 7 Australia seems to have actually been involved in the making of this particular series.

Remember that ABC-2-Digital-only is currently partway through screening season three of the original The Tribe from 6.30 to 7pm Monday to Fridays, so y’all can catch up with Amber-Eagle, Trudy, Bray, Lex, Salene, May, Jack, Ellie, Alice and the others then.

Patsy….. “So, is killing not wrong anymore?”
Trudy….. “We don’t have to worry about Right and Wrong anymore, ZOOT decides for us.”

useful websites:
# Official site of the original series www.tribeworld.com This excellent site has extensive links including eps synopses etc
# New Official website of the new series www.thenewtomorrow.net
New Official website for USA viewers (now that The Tribe original series is now screening all around the US), full details at www.thetribe.tv
# An excellent fan-made website from the UK with emphasis on the new series www.tribeheaven.co.uk .

Yes! That link to tribe heaven was really there!
Full article can be viewed online here.

Australia are continuing to screen the series in one hour blocks, so they’ll be finished by the time the UK is halfway through the half hour episodes! (May mean plans for a second series will go through quicker?).

The New Tomorrow showing in the UK on Channel 5, Sunday 2nd October, 11am(ish).

From The Sydney Morning Herald:

The Tribe – A New Tomorrow
By Ben Wyld
September 17, 2005

The Tribe – A New Tomorrow, Seven, Saturday 11am

A group of survivors are living in the wild in small groups. Around them, roaring predators patrol the dark jungle. Sound familiar?

The parallels with Lost are easy to find, but this is a spin-off of the New Zealand company Cloud 9’s The Tribe, now in its sixth series. Like the original, The New Tomorrow is aimed at eight-to-12 year olds and set in a world with no adults, where children create their own society.

The double-episode opener introduces us to the three main tribes: the peace-loving Ants, who live in the mountains; the proud Barbs of the forests; and the oppressive Privileged, who want total domination and enslave those known as the Discards. Each tribe has its own pagan mythology, extravagant costuming and colourful face paint. And, upon closer examination, each tribe has its own underlying tensions that threaten its order.

Today, there’s schadenfreude afoot when the Privileged carry out an attack on the Ants in the guise of the Barbs. The spiritual elements seem ponderous and the Ewok-styled costuming a little naff, but the plot moves along nicely and might just find a foothold with the intended audience.

Lol, Ewok style costumes!!!

Article can be found here.

Lol, found an article published in The Northland School Newsletter, Nick who was pictured in the net, plays the character called Sky. He isn’t Bray!?! Oh well.

From Northland School’s Newsletter. 15th June 2005 (yes that old!):

STUDENT NEWS
On Sunday, I interviewed one of our students who is away at Cloud 9 Studios in Lower Hutt filming a children’s television series called “The New Tomorrow”.

He is very busy at the moment, and usually wakes up at about 6:30am and gets picked up around 8:00-8:30. Before filming each scene, they [the characters] have to rehearse each scene three times, and the time it takes will depend on how long each scene is. The filming for each scene takes about half an hour to an hour, and the number of shots used depends on how many characters are in the scene.

Nick learns his lines very easily, and spends time at home going through them with his mum or dad, the day before he films them. His character’s name is Sky, and he is the main character in the series. His make-up is quite cool, but it hurts a lot at the start, even though the pain goes away later on. When he is not required on set, he is doing school work with a tutor in a caravan that’s been turned into a school room. He comes home each day at no earlier than 5:00, but usually around 6:30pm.

However, he is not out there every day. Some days he will be back at school the whole day, some days he will leave around lunch time. He will be back at school permanently around about the start of September. He is really enjoying this experience and it’s a good opportunity for him to show his talent in movie production, and who knows where he might end up? Look out Peter Jackson!

By, Patrick Hayes
Student Council Correspondent

Uhm, just don’t confuse him with ‘that chick from Neighbours’… Well OK it’s not likely… Anyway, Tribeworld have said (Monday 5th September) it’s the final week of filming!!! Which probably means as you read this, filming has finished.

The New Tomorrow Official Site should open this month and the series start next month or so in the UK and Australia.

News Round Up…

From the Hutt International Boys School 20th June 2005:

Cloud 9 Production ‘The New Tomorrow’A number of our students are involved in filming with the Cloud 9 Production, “The New Tomorrow”. Cameron Wakefield won a major role (he is working hard on the set full time for 15weeks), and speaking and continuity roles were awarded to Joshua Tukua, Andrew Miller and Andrew Brown. Students from 8B have been heavily involved in the filming of stage one which isalready selling internationally and are about to launch into stage 2 of this series. Congratulations to these boys – they have put us on the map and are highly regarded by the producers as being natural and creative young actors.

From Tribeworld’s Newsletter 29th July 2005:

We can’t believe there are only a few weeks to go! There was a big production meeting today to discuss the third block which is episodes 16-20. The production meeting involves going through all the sets, scenes and locations with all the heads of department. They run through how many extra’s are needed on which days and schedule which days will be shot at which location. They also discuss animal wrangling requirements and we can tell you there is a pony in the next block and there were some gorgeous little chicks on set this week.

From Tribeworld News 25th July 2005:

We did a parallel day last Thursday. That means that there were two crews out shooting in two different locations. There were also lots of extra’s required. Last week was also a big week for stunts. The cast practiced with the stunt coordinator the day before and then again just before the scene. There were some great camera angles to capture the action and they looked great!

That’s all.

That article which featured character names and Ray Thompson speaking about a Tribe film is now up. Click here to read it. It’s a good read, quiet alot in there.

Also, on Saturday 28th May, The Sun’s TV Guide briefly mentioned The Tribe – The New Tomorrow, article is here. Thanks to Adam (Scream0) for the scan, cheers mate

Hopefully more Tribe articles will appear in the UK press as series 5 will be repeated soon and eventually New Tomorrow will start. (Let me know if you spot any!)

In the new series, action centres around three tribes of children, all dressed in funky clothes and daubed with wild make-up: The Barbs, a primitive bunch of kids, who are at one with nature, and led by warrior girl Zora; The Ants, a disparate bunch of children hankering to the past, led by the flamboyant high priestess Faygar; and The Privileged, a hedonistic gang led by megalomaniac dictator Flame.

Interesting names I must say… Sorry but no mention of Bray and Brady! The article features interview snips from Nick Wilson and Raymond Thompson.

Quote from Raymond Thompson…

It has the same basic premise of kids fending for themselves without adults, but it tells the story of descendants from the original series.

RT speaking about the new setting for the series:

We wanted to create that sense of not knowing whether this was a prequel or a sequel, In places it looks like a nuclear war zone, set a thousand years in the future, and at other times, vestiges of tribal art and spiritual monuments make it seem like one thousand years in the past.

Nice! I hope there’s stuff in there for older fans…

Source: TBI Kid’s Briefing. Full article will be up on tribe heaven soon (having a few computer probs!)…

Interviews, with questions about The Tribe A New Tomorrow featured a while back in the German Space View fanbook. They have been translated by Mary and are up in tribe heaven’s article section. Click here to go there now!

There’s also cool interviews with previous Tribe stars Beth Allen (Amber), Dwayne Cameron (Bray), Meryl Cassie (Ebony), Calen Maiava-Paris (Mega), James Napier (Jay), Antonia Prebble (Trudy), Ashwath Sundaresan (Dal) & Michael Wesley-Smith (Jack).

Check it out! (More praises to Mary for the translations )