The New Tomorrow

Raymond Thompson visited here the other day!!!

He left a message in the post Hello James And Trey (scroll to the bottom). He also sent me an e-mail to me from his Cloud 9 address to confirm it was him. I replied to the e-mail and he replied back. In his reply to my e-mail he said…

I am really glad that you are enjoying TNT. To give you a teaser … Is it a sequel or indeed a prequel? All will be revealed eventually (I don’t want to spoil matters for fans of the series).

I still don’t know what to make of the sequel/prequel thing!?!?!

I asked about The Tribe DVD’s…

We’re speaking with distributors about the release of the DVD and are close to finalising an arrangement. Sadly it is not our decision otherwise I would have released the DVD ages ago. It is all down to distributors. But we are getting very close now.

He also added…

The New Tomorrow is doing really well in the UK and Australia and I gather from our broadcast distributor more territories will be taking the series which is good – so that fans can have access to it.

And I am still trying desperately to bring together a Tribe movie to tie all the loose ends together.

The Tribe is a very special title for me and the team and it is really great to interact with fans of the series such as your good self.

Coool.

Lol, was bored the other day, so I made something I’d share with y’all…
Ta-da!

It’s D’uh Ants!!! Lol.

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 )

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.

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!