Referred to as “the Dirty Dozen in space,” UK classic sci-fi series Blakes 7 has a doggedly loyal international following who may or may not be pleased about the news that a “reimagining” of the 1978-81 series originally written by Terry Nation (he created the Daleks!) is being shopped to U.S. networks.

Deadline broke the news that Georgeville Television (GVTV), an independent TV studio co-founded recently by Leon Clarance of Motion Picture Capital, the financing arm of Reliance Entertainment, and producer Marc Rosen, has teamed with feature director Martin Campbell (Casino Royal) and writer Joe Pokaski (Heroes, CSI) on the project.

IMDb summarizes the original series as “a group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship.” GVTV has secured the rights to the Blakes 7 franchise from rightsholder Andrew Sewell and his company B7 Media with funding provided by MPC. Campbell, Pokaski, Clerance, MPC’s Deepak Nayar and Sewell will executive produce. We told you back in May that GVTV‘s first project, Crossbones, received a 10-episode order from NBC to premiere midseason.

We promise to keep you posted.