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" Ron Moore has earned a reputation as the king of reboots - the man who brought Battlestar Galactica back to our screens in spectacular fashion has also been attached to new versions of Wild Wild West and A Knight&amp;#039;s Tale in the past few years - but his latest project is Channel 5&amp;#039;s US import Helix, a claustrophobic sci-fi thriller series and a wholly original production. &amp;quot;When you do something original, it&amp;#039;s one set of challenges - staring at the blank page and trying to figure out what it is,&amp;quot; Moore explains. &amp;quot;But when you&amp;#039;re starting with a book or an existing property, it&amp;#039;s a different set of challenges.  &amp;quot;You think, how can I move these pieces around in a different way? How can I give this familiarity without it feeling stale? They&amp;#039;re different intellectual puzzles, but I enjoy both ways of working.&amp;quot; Moore puts the string of reboots on his slate down to &amp;quot;coincidence&amp;quot; but admits that there is &amp;quot;something interesting&amp;quot; about the prospect of reinventing an established property. &amp;quot;Sometimes you can put a different spin on it, sometimes you can&amp;#039;t,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;Battlestar Galactica was something that fell in my lap and I just had a take that worked.  &amp;quot;Wild Wild West was something from my childhood that I loved. I always wanted to do a Western and it just felt like there was an opportunity to do a great new version of it. &amp;quot;A Knight&amp;#039;s Tale was something that was brought to me by Sony - they said, &amp;#039;What do you think about trying to adapt this [as a television series]?&amp;#039; and I was sort of sceptical, until I sat down and really started playing around with it. I started to see possibilities.&amp;quot; A possibility currently being mulled over by Moore is a second season of Helix, though he tells us it&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;a little too early&amp;quot; to provide concrete details. &amp;quot;It would look very different from the first,&amp;quot; is all he&amp;#039;ll say.  No surprise there. The first season of Helix - which follows a scientific team working to thwart a viral outbreak in the Arctic - feels like a self-contained concept. &amp;quot;The pace picks up,&amp;quot; Moore tells us of the upcoming episodes. &amp;quot;Things are starting to come to a crisis point - you&amp;#039;re going to start to peel back the layers. You&amp;#039;ll discover that a lot of people aren&amp;#039;t who they say.&amp;quot; It&amp;#039;s no surprise either that Moore - still best known for taking a camp &amp;#039;70s sci-fi series and transforming it into a darker, more adult show - feels that there is a dearth of mature science fiction on television right now.  &amp;quot;I think science-fiction for the last 15 or 20 years - on television and in movies - has devolved to just popcorn,&amp;quot; he says, citing Helix as one of the few examples of more &amp;quot;adult&amp;quot; TV sci-fi. &amp;quot;To do something in this genre, it had to be just light and fluffy and silly and adventurous. &amp;quot;I think that science-fiction can be deeper, it can be meatier, it can be more adult. It can take itself a little more seriously and try to do something different. That&amp;#039;s certainly what we set out to do with Battlestar and I think that Helix is a good venue for that as well.&amp;quot; Helix continues tonight (February 3) on Channel 5 - the series airs on Mondays at 10pm. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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