Quiet Earth has some good info on the remake of the old BBC series 'Survivors'.
For those out of the know, Survivors was a mid/late-70's era BBC television program created by Terry Nation (known for his work on other series like "Blake's 7").
The premise of the series is a biological plague wipes out most people, and of course, the series follows a bunch of survivors.
The official BBC announcement is hereIf you want to read up on the original Survivors TV show, you can do it at
http://www.survivorstvseries.com/.
Read the article:
Survivors gets BBC remake