Trying to remember the name of a scifi series from year ago

[ebikeerwidnes]

Hi all

I passed a building next to the bridgewater canal today which is ll black
and it reminded me of a scifi series frm years ago - but I'm blowed if I can remember the name

so I thought someone on here might !

Anyway - it starts with a computer person working on a project to predict the future movement of a creature of a few cells that moves totally at random
He succeeds in making a program to predict it for a few seconds eventually

He (she??) gets pulled into another group in the same company and discovers that they are wokring on something similar on a must bigger computer

and it turns out that they can accurately predict things that will happen - and that have happened

to the extent of being able to see exactly what happened many many years in the past


naturally it all goes wrong in the end



anyone know what I am thinking about???

it was a rather niche programme - probably on BBC2 or Channel 4 ???

thanks

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

Person of interest?

 

[classic33]

Devs

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Devs

Yup I think that's it

so much for me thinking it was British!

Thanks - it's been bugging me!

 

[classic33]

Yup I think that's it

so much for me thinking it was British!

Thanks - it's been bugging me!

The main studio of the company was alongside the Bridgewater Canal.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

The main studio of the company was alongside the Bridgewater Canal.

WOW - any idea where - it is quite a long canal

although that new black building does look rather sinister in the same way!

 

[classic33]

WOW - any idea where - it is quite a long canal

although that new black building does look rather sinister in the same way!

Space Studios, Manchester.

What happened here?

https://www.latlong.net/location/devs-locations-486

 

[postman]

If i got marooned on a desert island with lecky of course,and a dvd player.My two fave shows are P o I and MASH 4077.Harold Finch and John Reese are two superb characters,then MASH there is not one bad apple,Col Sherman T Potter being my fave.

 

[Oldhippy]

Space 1999, UFO and Star Trek were my sci fi favourite. Next Gen Star Trek and Picard are my grown up favourite sci fi.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I generally prefer Babylon5 - which is now a bit dated
and Battlestar Gallactica to the first Star Trek

Probably just because I watched them sequentially where I watched the STart Trek episodes in bits and pieces when they were on and I was at a loose end

 

[si_c]

I rewatch B5 every few years. I remember having a conversation with someone years ago where they insisted that it was terrible, the storyline was awful and that Star Trek was better in every way. Despite enjoying the latter, I quite enjoyed pointing out how DS9 was largely ripped off B5.

 

[captain nemo1701]

I rewatch B5 every few years. I remember having a conversation with someone years ago where they insisted that it was terrible, the storyline was awful and that Star Trek was better in every way. Despite enjoying the latter, I quite enjoyed pointing out how DS9 was largely ripped off B5.

Deep Space Nine aired in January 1993, Babylon 5 pilot in February '93 but the series didn't come along until 1994. The story arc leading to DS9 was built up in ST TNG. So I don't think DS9 ripped off B5 as it was in development prior to B5. Both are set on space stations which is why I think DS9 often gets accused of ripping off B5. B5 has dated badly now with the (then) TV CGI which DS9 & Voyager resisted going full CG. B5 does now look a bit like a video game of the era. Ironically, the guy who did the original B5 effects went on to Voyager and the episode 'Timeless' raised the bar for TV CGI with the ship crashing onto a glacier.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

If i got marooned on a desert island with lecky of course,and a dvd player.My two fave shows are P o I and MASH 4077.Harold Finch and John Reese are two superb characters,then MASH there is not one bad apple,Col Sherman T Potter being my fave.

You do look like a character out of the Mash TV series 😉

 

[cyberknight]

B5 CGI was done on high spec Amiga's I seem to remember, I did prefer it to start trek till the last season where it seemed to lose it a bit. No boom today?

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

B5 CGI was done on high spec Amiga's I seem to remember, I did prefer it to start trek till the last season where it seemed to lose it a bit. No boom today?

Yes - I remember that
when I was first watching it, I used an Amiga at home and loved them

As I was working in "proper IT" at the time I read a lot of things about DOS and WIndows and its competitors at the time and the general opinion was that the Amiga system was brilliant and well ahead of its time
and that the Microsoft systems were years behind the time - especially in terms of memory and how it used it -
BUT Microsoft had realised how to do marketing and work out what companies want

Commodore just assumed that they had the best system and so it would work - the World ain;t like that
and they also cocked up future planning which didn;t help

But the graphics they had surpassed even Apple - they just assumed they didn;t have to listen t the people that might buy them

I read an article about the CGI on B5 and the people working on it said that their job was made massively easier by using Amigas