From The Sydney Morning Herald:
The Tribe – A New Tomorrow
By Ben Wyld
September 17, 2005The 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.