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TEN to revisit prison drama

"We've looked at Prisoner for some time now and wondered whether it's time to revive the style of that show," says David Mott.

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More details have emerged on TEN’s 2011 thriller, Inside Out, and it seems it is “reinventing” Prisoner. Try and contain the enthusiasm guys….

“It’s a story in a detention centre about a woman who, wrongly accused, seeks her revenge,” Ten’s programming chief David Mott has told the Herald Sun.

“We’re very excited about it. We’ve looked at Prisoner for some time now and wondered whether it’s time to revive the style of that show.”

Producer Ian Bradley, who was a co-producer on Prisoner, is involved.

The network hopes Inside Out will become a long-running series. Yesterday it likened the show to UK dramas Bad Girls and Widows.

Longtime fans of the cult drama have frequently requested the series get a revival. The female series, which ran from 1979 – 1986 (pictured), already spawned a remake in the US, when original scripts were reproduced as Dangerous Women. TEN also attempted the male series Punishment, including with a young Mel Gibson.

Source: Herald Sun

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  2. Queen Bea was killed off in Barnhurst Prison in the original Prisoner, but it would be nice if they gave the likes of Val Lehmann and Rowena Wallace supporting roles in this.

    It actually crossed my mind that Ten may be using Inside Out to test the waters when I read about it here yesterday. Plenty of good storylines. At least it isn’t another cop show.

  3. If anyone’s going to be able to pull this off, it’ll be Ten. I can’t imagine what it’d look like on 9 or 7. And if they’re going to pull Prisoner out of the 70s and into the noughties, I think Vinegar Tits’d have to be renamed Evoo Ubers or Balsamic Boobs, something like that.

  6. Some of the original cast would still be banged up. Did Bea really go up in flames at Barnhurst? Perhaps Po Face Powell has – by now – risen to the rank of Gov’ nor? As much as we’d all love to see old faces, it would be hard I imagine for that ensemble to return given some of the best characters and their mates have since gone to that great prison in the sky. What would Wentworth be without Lizzie? Still…given some were serving life, it’s an easy write up to let some old faces appear, just to give it a bit of oomph.

  7. I have wondered for a while if there is a place in TV for this sort of thing again, you go back to say Number 96, The Box, even Chances and yeah they were nothing spectacular but that was the fun of it.

    If done in the right way then why not have a go at this style once again, while not the best show on TV New Zealand’s Outrageous Fortune is a blast to watch, surely we can do that style again.

    Take the brain out, sit back and enjoy something on TV for the sheer absurdity it is … bring it on TEN.

  8. Wasn’t It’s a Knockout sort of revived with Big Brother Friday nights? And if you want a modern day Young Doctors, check out Shortland Street. It is so The Young Doctors, if it were still on today. Only difference is it’s set in NZ.

  9. Hardly suprising news.

    Ten have looked at reviving Prisoner several times over the years. GIven that it is a recognisable TV’brand, I’m sure there’ll be a built-in audience ready and willing to give it a go.

    I’d love to see Val Lehman play the Govenor in this one!

  11. Great idea TEN! Get cameos from the oldies and have some really talented younger actresses as the prisoners such as Jessica Marais, Natasha Cunningham, Rebel Wilson, Robin McCleavy, Maeve Dermody – a mix of dramatic and dramedy actresses – some hot, some feral bogans – that’d go off I reckon!

  14. Australian TV rarely excites me. This is very different! If it is anything like Prisoner I will forgive TEN for anything bad they have ever done! There must be fights. There must be hair pulling. There must be name calling. There Must be light and dark. Too much of one or the other and it won’t be worth it.

  17. I think this is a bad idea whose time is past – as they say the past is another country…….
    The old Prisoner was groundbreaking because it was the only place we could examine “flawed” women in a sexist and misogynistic society. Now women are allowed to be flawed in all kinds of ways in prime time drama (except on Nine and Seven where they are still forced to be relentlessly and terminally “nice”, unless they are “baddies”. We’ve come a long way since Prisoner.

  22. This is the best news for tv for so so long.Halle blady lujah!!
    Inside Out eh?I remember using this title in the past when talk of a Prisoner style show was floating about a few years back.
    Wonderful news…i mean some of the original characters can be brought back into our living rooms right?
    Maggie fancy a stint behind bars as top dog?Go on,you know you want to.
    Unreal,magic,fabulous,choice.
    Ten this is a wonderful piece of news.
    Cannot wait…..

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