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Resurrection: an exciting new televisual concept

Ed Williamson

9th July 2014

Successful US show Resurrection is heading for British TV. It is about a small American town in which dead people come back to life. A bit like brilliant French series Les Revenants (The Returned), which is about a small French town in which dead people come back to life.

Just in case it's not clear, Resurrection is not based on the TV series The Returned. It is based on a book called The Returned by Jason Mott, which has nothing to do with the TV series The Returned. The Returned (the TV series) is not based on the book The Returned, but is instead based on the film They Came Back (whose French title is Les Revenants, which translates as "The Returned"). It is being remade for American TV under the title The Returned, though it was originally to be called They Came Back. Neither of them has anything to do with the Japanese film Yomigaeri (which translates as "The Returning"), in which dead people come back to life, or the British series In The Flesh, in which dead people come back to life, or the forthcoming NBC series Babylon Fields, in which dead people come back to life, or that episode of Eastenders when Dirty Den came back to life.

I'm looking forward to Resurrection, but I'll only watch it if there isn't something on another channel about dead people coming back to life.

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