‘Thunderbirds Are Go!’ for a New TV Series from Weta Workshop

5 February 2013 3:34 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

If you’re too young to remember, way before Team America: World Police put puppets into action, there was a British TV series in the 60s called Thunderbirds, which followed the adventures of International Rescue, a secretive organization created to help those in grave danger using technically advanced equipment and machinery launched from its hidden Tracy Island base.

Now ITV Studios is teaming with Weta Workshop (the special effects studio behind The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and more) for a new take on the series called Thunderbirds Are Go! which will start airing new episodes in the United Kingdom in 2015. An order of 26-episodes has already been made for the new adaptation which will mix computer animation with live-action sets, complete with homages to the models used in the original series.

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