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.

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 Channel Five, UK;

the new tomorrow(1/26)
11.05–11.35

This new children’s show is a sequel to teen drama ‘The Tribe’, which has distinguished itself as a cult hit series around the world. It explores similar themes – of a world without adults and all that entails – but introduces new and younger characters and is aimed at a slightly younger children’s audience .

New viewers can fully enjoy the show without being familiar with The Tribe. But ‘Tribe’ aficionados will also enjoy the series, finding storylines evocative within ‘The Tribe’ mythology. Unfolding against a backdrop of photogenic snow-capped mountains and streams, pine forests, rolling valleys and hills, this scenic wilderness is inhabited by tribes of children. Some live in encampments of tents, others in crude primitive-style dwellings, and others in caves: this could be 1,000 years in the past – or even 1,000 years into the future. In one particular valley, there is a dangerous, mysterious and uncharted no-go area around with seemingly no signs of human or animal life – only machines from a bygone age.

The series focuses on the interplay of four tribes; The Ants; the Barbs; the Privileged and the Discards. The children battle against the forces of Nature from the first snows of winter, to the parched lands in summer, and rain and floods in the fall, punctuating themes of living off the land. Some tribes worship the sun and moon. Their culture and entire heritage seems to emanate from ancient markings visible from caves and rocks – and huge mysterious stone edifices reminiscent of Stonehenge and Easter Island. The markings seem as if they have evolved from an ancient civilisation but are also reminiscent of the machines that roam the technological graveyard in the Forbidden Zone.

The New Tomorrow combines action and adventure, mystery and intrigue, humour and pathos with underlying themes of hope and human endeavour where good always triumphs in the end.
Can the dream of the original Mall Rats (from ‘The Tribe’) to create a fair and just society and a better world finally come to pass through their descendants and a new generation of children, struggling to make sense of their environments and lives – in a world with no adults?

In this first episode, an enigmatic stranger called Sky arrives causing mystery and suspicion amongst the Barbs and Ants. Who is Sky? Where did he come from, and what does he want?
Flame, the Leader of the Privs, is especially concerned by Sky’s presence and wonders if Sky could somehow threaten Flame’s notion of extending his rule. Meanwhile, the Ants and Barbs are more concerned about movement from the monster machines in the forbidden zone. The Ant Tribal leader, Faygar, disagrees with the leader of the Barbs, Zora, on the best way of dealing with the machines – and Flame.

Holy poo!!!
The forbidden zone?
Ancient markings?
Monster machines?
Could Sky be Amber’s son Bray?!?!

Can’t wait!

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!)…

Article from May 10th : WorldScreenNews.com

SYDNEY, May 10: Production on Cloud 9’s new kids’ sci-fi series The New Tomorrow, a sequel to The Tribe, is set to begin on May 30.

The 26×30-minute series will be filmed across Australasia and is due for delivery in September. It has been commissioned by Seven Network Australia and Five, and will be distributed internationally by Southern Star International.

The new series is aimed at a slightly younger audience than The Tribe, gearing to 8- to 12-year-olds. It is based in a world with no adults, where kids have to create their own society.

“The New Tomorrow is a very exciting and innovative children’s series,” said Raymond Thompson, Cloud 9’s founder and chairman and creator/writer on The New Tomorrow. “[It] interweaves a range of provocative social and environmental issues, and a range of elements which children can relate to—reflecting their young lives—in a very entertaining way.”

I think I may be tooo old for this series. Yeah sure, I watched Jay Jay The Jet Plane, but that’s because Vanessa Stacey (Alice) was in it, I do enjoy watching the Cramp Twins, but that’s a cartoon, but I just dunno about this! Help! I’m dissillusioned (sp?)…

Oh on a lighter note, here’s a rather nice pic of a slutty Amber, after a night out with the girls, courtesy of Tribeworld. Now don’t expect pics like that when ANT/TNT comes out kiddies! – Oh I’m so bad…

Beth Allen, we salute you!

A quote from Raymond Thompson:

The New Tomorrow will be a “younger, gentler” sequel to the 260-episode The Tribe. “It will involve some of the baby characters in the original series. It’s still the same world, without adults, but 10 years on.”

So we may see Brady & a grown up baby Bray and also, er, Ebony’s child?!? Well Tribemaster *coughs* loosely said Ebony’s pregnant… Check out other Tribemaster reports for an idea of how A New Tomorrow will pan out. We can assume Amber, Lex, Ebony and co. are rotting corpses by now, so no chance of a comeback.

The words ‘younger’ and ‘gentler’ are pretty worrying. If it’s set 10 years after Series 5 of The Tribe, Brady will be 13ish and Bray Junior 11! Oh dear.

The quote is from an article published on 15th March in ‘The Hutt News’, a local New Zealand paper. The article also featured a casting number, for any New Zealand peeps interested in auditioning for the show. To read the entire article, click here.

Looks like Caleb Ross (The Tribe’s Lex) might be seeing A New Tomorrow after The Tribe, from Tribeworld:

Caleb Ross was in the office last week helping out with a casting session. He helped some of the kids with their lines and through the casting audition. It looks like he’ll also be helping out on the new series in another role as well – we’ll keep you posted.

Maybe he’ll be working behind the scenes? Unless of course ’sexy Lexy’ was killed and he mysteriously returns as a computer which can talk or as an all singing and dancing robot!?! Well it is the future after all!… Eh! Who writes this stuff?! …

- Cheers to Lancie for directing me to Tribeworld!

Oh er, according to a new article out today, The New Tomorrow will be filmed in New Zealand, not Australia!

Mr Raymond Thompson has said, according to the article, the main reason The New Tomorrow was being filmed in Lower Hutt (New Zealand) and not Brisbane (Australia) was because he was spending a lot of time in Wellington and at a Martinborough vineyard he had bought.

It’s alright for some!

Click here to read the article!

Tribe Sequel Picked Up By Five & Seven : by Jules Grant
18 Mar 2005

Cloud 9 Entertainment’s sequel to futuristic teen drama The Tribe has been greenlit after two major broadcast commissions from UK terrestrial Five and Seven Network Australia.

The New Tomorrow (26×30?), a children’s sci-fi adventure series, is currently at the script stage, with production due to start in April. It will be delivered from September 2005. The series will be filmed and produced by Cloud 9 throughout Australasia. Southern Star will distribute the series, following a deal to distribute Cloud 9’s catalogue in January.

The new series starts from the same premise as The Tribe – a world with no adults, in which children have to re-create their own society. The new version will be aimed at a younger audience of 8-12 year olds.

The new version of the series sees three main tribes of children: The Barbs, a primitive bunch of kids; The Ants, a disparate bunch of children hanging on to the past; and The Privileged, described as a “slightly decadent, hedonistic gang”.

In contrast to The Tribe’s disused shopping mall setting, The New Tomorrow’s backdrop is snow-capped mountains, streams and rolling landscape. The show will transmit on Seven Network and Five’s Shake strand in Autumn. The original has been licensed to over 40 worldwide broadcasters.

Cloud 9 is behind hits including The Adventures of Swiss Family Robinson and the Enid Blyton Secret Series. Its ceo Raymond Thompson is the exec producer of Cloud 9’s portfolio, with previous credits including the BBC’s 1985 drama Howard’s Way.

Cloud 9 wound down its London-based distribution arm Cumulus in November 2004 to concentrate production in New Zealand and Australia. It later appointed Southern Star as global distributor.

Jules Grant
18 Mar 2005
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